Valid $\ne$ Necessary: Diagnosing Latent Inefficiency in Chain-of-Thought

The study identifies a critical inefficiency in Chain-of-Thought prompting where models generate redundant but logically valid reasoning steps that current evaluators fail to penalize.

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