3 papers
cs.CL2025
Stochastic Chameleons: Irrelevant Context Hallucinations Reveal Class-Based (Mis)Generalization in LLMs
Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Marc-Antoine Rondeau +1
The widespread success of large language models (LLMs) on NLP benchmarks has been accompanied by concerns that LLMs function primarily as stochastic parrots that reproduce texts si…
cs.CL2025
Can LLMs Reason Abstractly Over Math Word Problems Without CoT? Disentangling Abstract Formulation From Arithmetic Computation
Ziling Cheng, Meng Cao, Leila Pishdad +2
Final-answer-based metrics are commonly used for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on math word problems, often taken as proxies for reasoning ability. However, such metrics…
cs.CL2025
The Reasoning-Memorization Interplay in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Yihuai Hong, Dian Zhou, Meng Cao +2
Large language models (LLMs) excel on a variety of reasoning benchmarks, but previous studies suggest they sometimes struggle to generalize to unseen questions, potentially due to…