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cs.CL2026

Code over Words: Overcoming Semantic Inertia via Code-Grounded Reasoning

Manjie Xu, Isabella Yin, Xinyi Tu +2

LLMs struggle with Semantic Inertia: the inability to inhibit pre-trained priors (e.g., "Lava is Dangerous") when dynamic, in-context rules contradict them. We probe this phenomeno…