Correct but Incomplete: Why Chain-of-Thought Cannot Currently Support Auditable Reasoning.

@inproceedings{richards-2026-correct, author = {Edward Richards and Javier Sanz-Cruzado and Richard McCreadie}, editor = {Ricardo Campos and Adam Jatowt and Yanyan Lan and Mohammad Aliannejadi and Christine Bauer and Sean MacAvaney and Avishek Anand and Zhaochun Ren and Suzan Verberne and Nan Bai and Masoud Mansoury}, title = {{Correct but Incomplete: Why Chain-of-Thought Cannot Currently Support Auditable Reasoning}}, booktitle = {{Advances in Information Retrieval - 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 - April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Part II}}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {16484}, pages = {615--623}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_53}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_53} }