Subbarao Kambhampati argues intermediate LLM tokens should not be anthropomorphized as human-like reasoning or thinking traces
The position paper was defended at the ICML conference.
The position paper was defended at the ICML conference.
The position paper was defended at the ICML conference.
The position paper was defended at the ICML conference.
*PHEW*.. That was a marathon 2.5 hour(!) poster side discussions with streams of interested #ICML2026 attendees who stopped by to chat with me and @durgesh_kalwar that made coming all the way to defend our position completely worth it!🤗 Hope we changed some minds..🤞(Full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762)