arXiv:2610.37732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many uses of language models end in a typed decision: a choice among a closed set of options, whose probabilities code can act on. Reading those probabilities from one forward pass is fast but often wrong on decisions that take several steps, such as arithmetic, counting, and date comparison. Letting the model think first fixes most of these errors,

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BuilderYou can gate a fast single-pass classifier behind a dev-calibrated error test and escalate to thinking on the same cached prompt, saving ~28% of thought tokens
ResearcherShows System 1 confidence alone is a weak escalation signal because the least-confident decisions are often not the ones thinking fixes; a calibrated acceptance

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