Revisiting Chain-of-Thought in Code Generation: Do Language Models Need to Learn Reasoning before Coding?

Renbiao Liu, Anqi Li, Chaoding Yang, Hui Sun, Ming Li
2/14/2026

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@article{liu2026revisiting,
  title  = {Revisiting Chain-of-Thought in Code Generation: Do Language Models Need to Learn Reasoning before Coding?},
  author = {Renbiao Liu and Anqi Li and Chaoding Yang and Hui Sun and Ming Li},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:70da5f8f50a42890af8bcf598efcf03f0b4a45db},
  journal = {ICML 2025 2025}
}

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