Chain-of-thought traces are widely read as records of how models reach their answers, informing debugging, agent auditing, and claims about reasoning. Testing this interpretation is difficult because natural-language thinking traces are rarely mechanically verifiable. We revisit it in iGSM, a synthetic grade-school mat...
Ratish Puduppully, Pranabendu Misra, Paarth Iyer et al.· 0 citations
A mental model-based framework of trust is proposed that captures multidimensional aspects of trust and can be used to infer human trust and can also be used as a foundation for any trust-aware decision-making framework.
Z. Zahedi, S. Sreedharan, Erin K. Chiou et al.· 8 citations
This work introduces \textit{masked distillation}, a knowledge-distillation framework in which a student LLM is trained to predict only the solution tokens conditioned on the question, while a reasoning teacher provides feedback on the student's responses after conditioning on the question and its own CoT trace.