Safwat Shabib

Separating Behavioral, Latent, and Causal Commitment to Incorrect Answers in Large Language Model Reasoning: A Structured Critical Meta-Synthesis

The literature on multi-step chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning increasingly claims that models become committed to incorrect answers mid-trace. We show that this shared vocabulary masks three non-interchangeable constructs—behavioral preference concentration, latent detectability,...