Across ten LLMs, masking the final answer inside a complete reasoning chain causes a 26.9-point accuracy drop, evidence that models anchor to answers, not reasoning templates.
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Answer-Centric or Reasoning-Driven? Uncovering the Latent Memory Anchor in LLMs
Across ten LLMs, masking the final answer inside a complete reasoning chain causes a 26.9-point accuracy drop, evidence that models anchor to answers, not reasoning templates.