An Asymptotic Theory of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning

arXiv:2606.03217 · stat.ML, cond-mat.dis-nn, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-02 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cond-mat.dis-nn, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-02

Updated: 2026-10-27

Terminology

• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Phase Transition — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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