@article{howchainofthoughtworkstracinginformation, title = {How Chain-of-Thought Works? Tracing Information Flow from Decoding, Projection, and Activation}, author = {Hao Yang and Qinghua Zhao and Lei Li and Lingyi Meng and Mengda Yu}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2507.20758}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20758}, }