Independent, bounded reproduction for OpenReview uZ8JZ1Lw9a. The paper has no released reference implementation or hyperparameter bundle; this repository therefore implements the stated block construction and four testable claims on small, explicit settings.
CoT can represent and iteratively execute neural-network gradient descent. repro.py spells out the ReLU forward/backward blocks (Definitions 2.2… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/IvanMiao/icml2026-cot-gradient-descent-repro.
