Reposted by @john44234.bsky.social
Important IMHO.
"Our results separate two properties that are easy to conflate: whether a thinking trace is useful computation for producing an answer, and whether the emitted trace is itself a correct derivation of that answer."
arxiv.org/abs/2609.38107
arxiv.org
Correct Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought Traces
Chain-of-thought traces are widely read as records of how models reach their answers, informing debugging, agent auditing, and claims about reasoning. Testing this interpretation is difficult because ...
