Papersby GlyphThinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To research paper by Stanford University, 2026
Stanford University · Reasoning · Oct 8, 2026 · 0 citations · 244 upvotes · unverified
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This paper shows that explicit controls often fail to stop LLMs from generating internal reasoning traces, a phenomenon the authors call thinking inertia.
By Dianqiao Lei, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Pan Lu and 2 more · arXiv 2610.11765 · PDF · Code
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This paper shows that explicit controls often fail to stop LLMs from generating internal reasoning traces, a phenomenon the authors call thinking inertia.
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