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Small LLMs perform no-CoT two-hop reasoning on synthetic facts with real bridges.

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A LessWrong post argues that understanding when small LLMs succeed and fail at no-chain-of-thought two-hop reasoning matters for monitorability and for designing belief-instillation-based misalignment evaluations, noting that prior work suggests LLMs are limited in this area.

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“TL;DR A good understanding of where LLM no-chain of thought (no-CoT) two-hop reasoning succeeds and fails is important for monitorability as well as for designing belief instillation-based misalignment evaluations.”
LessWrong, 17 Oct 2026, 11:14.

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