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Language models rely more on their chain of thought for final answers as problem difficulty increases.

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For sufficiently hard problems, the model’s final answer becomes consistent with the (incorrect) forced reasoning. This confirms our hypothesis: the model relies more on its CoT for more difficult problems.

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Section 3.2: forcing incorrect intermediate steps in Gemini 1.5 Pro CoT on algebra problems of increasing difficulty.

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