The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption explains the correlation between LLM entropy dynamics and reasoning correctness by positing that correct traces accumulate answer-relevant information stepwise during generation.
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CoT traces align with internal answer commitment in only 61.9% of steps on average, dominated by confabulated continuations after commitment has stabilized.
Reasoning budget in LRMs functions as a generation ceiling rather than a real-time dial, leaving cognitive cost alignment with humans invariant across effort levels and supporting a training-time compiled account.
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The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption: Why are Entropy Dynamics and Reasoning Correlated in LLMs?
The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption explains the correlation between LLM entropy dynamics and reasoning correctness by positing that correct traces accumulate answer-relevant information stepwise during generation.
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When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel
CoT traces align with internal answer commitment in only 61.9% of steps on average, dominated by confabulated continuations after commitment has stabilized.
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Effort as Ceiling, Not Dial: Reasoning Budget Does Not Modulate Cognitive Cost Alignment Between Humans and Large Reasoning Models
Reasoning budget in LRMs functions as a generation ceiling rather than a real-time dial, leaving cognitive cost alignment with humans invariant across effort levels and supporting a training-time compiled account.