decoding · verify-each-reasoning-step-solver-backtrack-failure TEC-0229 · proposed

Verify each reasoning step with a solver and backtrack on fa

Decompose each generated reasoning step into context, implicit assumptions and conclusion, formalize it into a solver specification, score it by premise fidelity plus solver entailment, and regenerate from that step when the score falls bel

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Decompose each generated reasoning step into context, implicit assumptions and conclusion, formalize it into a solver specification, score it by premise fidelity plus solver entailment, and regenerate from that step when the score falls bel Filed by the drafting stage from LogicTrack: Auditing Reasoning Trajectories of Large Language Models with Formal Logic Solvers (2609.21492) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Compared against vanilla CoT on 168 benchmark-metric cells across 8 datasets and 7 models, improving in 133; unverified step ratio and verification-weighted accuracy reported per cell; also compared against LogicReward (OA 0.4338 to 0.5765) and against beam search and MCTS variants on SARA.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.

Addresses: Carrying a chain of inference through to its conclusion

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