@misc{lit_2609_33134,
  title = { {Ceiling of a Task: When Can a Transformer Succeed Without Its Chain of Thought?} },
  author = {Jiashu He and Jinxuan Fan and Xiao Xiao and Radu Marculescu and Alejandro Ribeiro},
  year = {2026},
  note = {arXiv preprint},
  eprint = {2609.33134},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33134}
}