The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption: When Do Entropy Dynamics Track Reasoning Correctness in LLMs?

arXiv:2604.06192 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IT, cs.LG, math.IT · Submitted 2026-03-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IT, cs.LG, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-03-11

Updated: 2026-10-21

Terminology

• Stepwise Informativeness Assumption — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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