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Correct Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought Traces
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers found that AI models produce correct math answers with invalid reasoning traces, even when trained on valid traces.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building AI systems where you need to trust or audit the model's step-by-step reasoning, not just final answers.
- Watch out
- The study used synthetic grade-school math; results may not generalize to other domains or real-world reasoning tasks beyond mathematics.
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