Belief Shift

Change in the model's internal belief state as tracked by probes during CoT generation, indicating genuine uncertainty resolution

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Inflection Points in CoT
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Moments of behavioral change in CoT (e.g., backtracking, 'aha' moments) that the paper finds correlate with genuine belief shifts

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Belief Updatingconcept0.800
Recursive inference of hidden states and parameters using free energy minimization.
Belief Propagationmethod0.800
Inference mechanism underlying active inference; updates posterior beliefs via gradient descent on free energy.
Belief* (Schwitzgebel)concept0.779
Schwitzgebel's concept applying behavioural and cognitive dispositions to LMs without ascriptions of phenomenal consciousness.
Pain-Beliefconcept0.767
The latent state inferred by the agent representing its belief about being in pain, used as exploration signal
Superstitious Beliefconcept0.764
Incorrect abduction arising from chance occurrences consistent with prior beliefs; leads to persistently poor behavior
Belief Propagation Algorithmmethod0.739
Message passing algorithm based on Bethe approximation.
federated inference and belief-sharingconcept0.738
Friston et al. concept for collective belief dynamics; relevant for extended cognitive glue.
LM Beliefconcept0.733
Contentious concept operationalised behaviourally as consistent outputs of P or similar content when directly asked about P.