The Scaling Properties of Implicit Deductive Reasoning in Transformers
Quick summary
arXiv:2605.04330v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the scaling properties of implicit deductive reasoning over Horn clauses in depth-bounded Transformers. By systematically decorrelating provability from spurious features and enforcing algorithmic alignment, we find that in sufficiently deep models with a bidirectional prefix mask, implicit reasoning approaches explicit CoT performance across graph topologies and problem widths, though CoT remains necessary for depth extrapolation.
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2605.04330v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the scaling properties of implicit deductive reasoning over Horn clauses in depth-bounded Transformers.
- By systematically decorrelating provability from spurious features and enforcing algorithmic alignment, we find that in sufficiently deep models with a bidirectional prefix mask, implicit reasoning approaches explicit CoT performance across graph topologies and problem widths, though CoT remains necessary for depth extrapolation.
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