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Colin Sandon

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Preprint Jul 2026

Recovering Assignments with One-Sided Noise

The query complexity of recovering a planted assignment from a random constraint-satisfaction instance with one-sided noise is studied, and bounds for nonadaptive algorithms are proved and adaptivity gives a factor $\exp(\Theta(k))$ improvement.

Cassandra Marcussen, Elchanan Mossel, Colin Sandon · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

Soft Guidance Starts to Outperform CoT Prompting as LLMs Improve

It is suggested that using standard CoT prompting increasingly acts as a source of distraction as models grow stronger, because standard CoT prompting also demands style adaptation, formatting compliance, and potentially undesired contextualization, which can distract models from the core reasoning task.

Denys Pushkin, Albert Q. Jiang, Aryo Lotfi et al. · 0 citations