[2305.04388] Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting
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[2305.04388] Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting Skip to main content arXiv is now an independent nonprofit! Learn more × Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search --> Computer Science > Computation and Language arXiv:2305.04388 (cs) [Submitted on 7 May 2023 ( v1 ), last revised 9 Dec 2023 (this version, v2)] Title: Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting Authors: Miles Turpin , Julian Michael , Ethan Perez , Samuel R. Bowman View a PDF of
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