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Jul 2026
Chemical Chain-of-Thought Functions as a Hallucination-Prone Molecular Scratchpad
The results show that chemical CoT is neither a faithful explanation nor merely a post-hoc rationalization, but a hallucination-prone molecular scratchpad, which cautions against treating CoT as direct evidence of faithful reasoning and motivates process-level supervision beyond answer-only evaluation.
Jiatong Li, Yuxuan Ren, Weida Wang et al.
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