Token-Level Forking Paths in Reasoning Traces: Some Examples
Epistemic status: No rigorous findings, I'm only really looking at a few examples here. But this gave me a more intuitive feel for how LLM reasoning traces work in a way that's difficult to fully explain. Intro I've recently read the papers: "Thought Anchors", "Forking Paths" and "Critical Tokens Matter"....
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