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Thinking to Recall: Reasoning Unlocks Parametric Knowledge
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Google research showing CoT reasoning substantially expands LLM parametric knowledge recall — unlocking correct answers unreachable via direct prompting, even for simple factual questions. Practical implication: always-on reasoning may be worth the cost for knowledge-intensive agent tasks. RAG may be partially compensating for a solvable reasoning deficit. HuggingFace
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