A Four-Stage Decomposition of Word-Problem Solving and Mechanistic Fragility in LLM Math Reasoning
arXiv:2609.17804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models solve grade-school math word problems with high accuracy, yet a single irrelevant clause inserted into the problem can collapse it. We reconcile these observations with a…
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AuthorZhongdi Qu, Carla P. Gomes