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Vijay Balasubramanian

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Dichotomy Between Pattern Recognition and Step-by-Step Reasoning

We argue that pattern recognition and step-by-step reasoning are two ends of a spectrum. A large language model (LLM) learns to reason step-by-step when data is structured such that the next token depends on a small amount of preceding context. Inference in LLMs resembles pattern recognition when the next token depends...

Amrut Nadgir, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Balasubramanian · 0 citations

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