LLMs encode functional importance over reasoning tokens, demonstrated by greedy pruning that yields shorter effective chains and attention scores that predict pruning order.
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Do LLMs Encode Functional Importance of Reasoning Tokens?
LLMs encode functional importance over reasoning tokens, demonstrated by greedy pruning that yields shorter effective chains and attention scores that predict pruning order.