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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking

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This paper cites Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Nature , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think , author =

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This paper cites The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency , pages=

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This paper cites Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking ICLR 2025 Workshop on World Models: Understanding, Modelling and Scaling , year=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Computational Linguistics , volume=

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 2013 conference of the north american chapter of the association for computational linguistics: Human language technologies , pages=.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Proceedings of the 2013 conference of the north american chapter of the association for computational linguistics: Human language technologies , pages=

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This paper cites The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP , pages=.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP , pages=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking International Conference on Learning Representations , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Mathematics of computation , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Advances in neural information processing systems , volume=

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This paper cites Interpretability in the Wild: a Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small.

Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Interpretability in the Wild: a Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 , pages=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Inspecting and Editing Knowledge Representations in Language Models

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking OpenAI blog , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP , pages=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Cognitive Psychology , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Assessment , volume=

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning In The Wild Is Not Always Faithful

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking TMLR , author =

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ , author =

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Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system , author =

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