LLMs prioritize surface heuristics such as distance cues over implicit constraints in reasoning tasks, with the new HOB benchmark showing no model exceeds 75% strict accuracy and hints recovering performance.
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The Model Says Walk: How Surface Heuristics Override Implicit Constraints in LLM Reasoning
LLMs prioritize surface heuristics such as distance cues over implicit constraints in reasoning tasks, with the new HOB benchmark showing no model exceeds 75% strict accuracy and hints recovering performance.