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How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 10 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2402.18312.

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ShadowCoT: Cognitive Hijacking for Stealthy Reasoning Backdoors in LLMs cites this paper.

ShadowCoT: Cognitive Hijacking for Stealthy Reasoning Backdoors in LLMs How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 26

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A Survey on Latent Reasoning cites this paper.

A Survey on Latent Reasoning How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 27

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When LLMs Copy to Think: Uncovering Copy-Guided Attacks in Reasoning LLMs cites this paper.

When LLMs Copy to Think: Uncovering Copy-Guided Attacks in Reasoning LLMs How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 4

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Beyond I'm Sorry, I Can't: Dissecting Large Language Model Refusal cites this paper.

Beyond I'm Sorry, I Can't: Dissecting Large Language Model Refusal How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 14

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Observation 3a7a9a11-98ac-4b36-80ac-d747f6a34d98 · inbound

Emergent Slow Thinking in LLMs as Inverse Tree Freezing cites this paper.

Emergent Slow Thinking in LLMs as Inverse Tree Freezing How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 10

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Observation de6a97b6-b439-4597-a39d-9dd1a82fd406 · inbound

Attention Illuminates LLM Reasoning: The Preplan-and-Anchor Rhythm Enables Fine-Grained Policy Optimization cites this paper.

Attention Illuminates LLM Reasoning: The Preplan-and-Anchor Rhythm Enables Fine-Grained Policy Optimization How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 18

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Compared to What? Baselines and Metrics for Counterfactual Prompting cites this paper.

Compared to What? Baselines and Metrics for Counterfactual Prompting How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 38

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Observation 0a19349e-89a3-47e6-9f1c-454f049ae860 · inbound

The Readout Shortcut: Positional Number Copying Dominates Arithmetic CoT Readout in Small Language Models cites this paper.

The Readout Shortcut: Positional Number Copying Dominates Arithmetic CoT Readout in Small Language Models How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 7

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-25T06:30:25.610890Z

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Agentic Transformers Provably Learn to Search via Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

Agentic Transformers Provably Learn to Search via Reinforcement Learning How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 51

Resolution: metadata mismatch; arxiv_id, observed 2026-06-28T23:42:49.918680Z

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Observation c1d5aacc-bd3e-40d6-8e73-02f7ad565656 · inbound

Characterize Then Distill: Mechanistic Reasoning in Large Output Spaces cites this paper.

Characterize Then Distill: Mechanistic Reasoning in Large Output Spaces How to think step-by-step: A mechanistic understanding of chain-of-thought reasoning

Reference 89

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-06-27T22:31:21.410870Z

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