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PublishedSeptember 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A Four-Stage Decomposition of Word-Problem Solving and Mechanistic Fragility in LLM Math Reasoning
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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 mechanistic account. We show that the model's internal comp
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