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Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Disentangling Memory and Reasoning Ability in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Disentangling Memory and Reasoning Ability in Large Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Large Language Models for Scholarly Ontology Generation: An Extensive Analysis in the Engineering Field cites this paper.

Large Language Models for Scholarly Ontology Generation: An Extensive Analysis in the Engineering Field Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Memory makes computation universal, remember? cites this paper.

Memory makes computation universal, remember? Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Multimodal LLMs Can Reason about Aesthetics in Zero-Shot cites this paper.

Multimodal LLMs Can Reason about Aesthetics in Zero-Shot Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models cites this paper.

Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Are Large Language Models Reliable AI Scientists? Assessing Reverse-Engineering of Black-Box Systems Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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From Token to Action: State Machine Reasoning to Mitigate Overthinking in Information Retrieval cites this paper.

From Token to Action: State Machine Reasoning to Mitigate Overthinking in Information Retrieval Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Knowing Before Saying: LLM Representations Encode Information About Chain-of-Thought Success Before Completion cites this paper.

Knowing Before Saying: LLM Representations Encode Information About Chain-of-Thought Success Before Completion Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Token Signature: Predicting Chain-of-Thought Gains with Token Decoding Feature in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Token Signature: Predicting Chain-of-Thought Gains with Token Decoding Feature in Large Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Data Shifts Hurt CoT: A Theoretical Study cites this paper.

Data Shifts Hurt CoT: A Theoretical Study Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Unveiling Confirmation Bias in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning cites this paper.

Unveiling Confirmation Bias in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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The Other Mind: How Language Models Exhibit Human Temporal Cognition cites this paper.

The Other Mind: How Language Models Exhibit Human Temporal Cognition Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Before Humans Join the Team: Diagnosing Coordination Failures in Healthcare Robot Team Simulation cites this paper.

Before Humans Join the Team: Diagnosing Coordination Failures in Healthcare Robot Team Simulation Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? cites this paper.

Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences cites this paper.

The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences cites this paper.

The Prompt Engineering Report Distilled: Quick Start Guide for Life Sciences Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Artificial Phantasia: Emergent Mental Imagery in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Artificial Phantasia: Emergent Mental Imagery in Large Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Can Textual Reasoning Improve the Performance of MLLMs on Fine-grained Visual Classification? cites this paper.

Can Textual Reasoning Improve the Performance of MLLMs on Fine-grained Visual Classification? Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Prism-Reranker: Beyond Relevance Scoring -- Jointly Producing Contributions and Evidence for Agentic Retrieval Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Post Reasoning: Improving the Performance of Non-Thinking Models at No Cost Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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The Gordian Knot for VLMs: Diagrammatic Knot Reasoning as a Hard Benchmark Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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To Whom Do Language Models Align? Measuring Principal Hierarchies Under High-Stakes Competing Demands Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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CRANE: Constrained Reasoning Injection for Code Agents via Nullspace Editing Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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CRANE: Constrained Reasoning Injection for Code Agents via Nullspace Editing Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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TCARD: Nearly Balanced Two-Level Designs with Treatment Cardinality Constraints with an Application to LLM Prompt Engineering Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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When Do LLMs Reason? A Dynamical Systems View via Entropy Phase Transitions cites this paper.

When Do LLMs Reason? A Dynamical Systems View via Entropy Phase Transitions Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Risk-aware Selective Prompting for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Enabling Cloud-Level Accuracy in Edge AI through IoT Data Preprocessing cites this paper.

Enabling Cloud-Level Accuracy in Edge AI through IoT Data Preprocessing Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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Auto-Fill: Learning to Predict Missing Values Accurately with Specialist Language Models cites this paper.

Auto-Fill: Learning to Predict Missing Values Accurately with Specialist Language Models Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse

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