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Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability?

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Published "Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability?" — a rebuttal arguing that CoT can be faithful even when it does not put the hint into words

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A direct counterargument to the Oxford position paper. Cite the two as a pair

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Pressarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23032

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