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Later Clarification Could Not Undo the First Guess
Equivalent dialogue content produced different results when its order changed.
Summary
Equivalent dialogue content produced different results when its order changed.
Controlled writing, planning and coding dialogues produced different outcomes when equivalent information arrived in a different order. The authors call the effect early posterior collapse and found that summaries and chain-of-thought prompting did not reliably restore the corrected task state.
Why it matters
Equivalent dialogue content produced different results when its order changed.
Limits and context
- The authors call the effect early posterior collapse and found that summaries and chain-of-thought prompting did not reliably restore the corrected task state.
Key claims
Equivalent dialogue content produced different results when its order changed.
Qualification: The authors call the effect early posterior collapse and found that summaries and chain-of-thought prompting did not reliably restore the corrected task state.
Evidence: source-2026-09-23-021
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2609.25337arXiv · primary research
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