[antleys]

This article is not about "reasoning" in the abstract, philosophical sense but is talking about "mechanistic interpretability" research. The title is more like, "can we understand if the 'knowledge' encoded into a neural networks actually corresponds to reasoning-like concepts" and doing that with actual experiments like tweaking weights and activations.

There's an interesting example where researchers saw a model approached clock time calculations and calendar month-day calculations using the same methodology. So then is this because an underlying concept of "cyclical measures" has emerged in the network?

[dang]

Thanks - I've attempted to put that in the title above, in the hope of representing the article accurately.

(The trouble with a baity title like "Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?" is that it generates a barrage of shallow, reflexive responses having little to do with the article. What we want on HN are curious, reflexive responses instead - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....)