@article{decodinganswersbeforechainofthoughtevide, title = {Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers}, author = {Kyle Cox and Darius Kianersi and AdriĆ  Garriga-Alonso}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2603.01437}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01437}, }