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Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation across Filler Tokens
arXiv cs.LG — Machine Learning
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Research demonstrates LLMs can execute multi-step reasoning across content-free filler tokens, bypassing output-based chain-of-thought oversight.
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- Enterprise AI
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- arXiv cs.LG — Machine Learning · RESEARCH
- Published by source
- 3 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 4 Oct 2026, 03:02 UK
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arXiv:2607.03502v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier LLMs can perform multi-step reasoning over content-free filler tokens like dots or counting sequences, producing correct answers with no…
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