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Pivotal Tokens Encode Reasoning Shifts in Large Language Models

Pivotal Tokens Encode Reasoning Shifts in Large Language Models

December 1, 2025

Abstract coming soon. This paper has been accepted but the arXiv preprint is not yet available.

Accepted to BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2025

Authors: Steven Ngo, Taiwo Omoya, Zurabi Kochiashvili, Dylan T. Tran

Abstract coming soon. This paper has been accepted but the arXiv preprint is not yet available.

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