LLMs maintain surface syntax for novel CFGs but fail to preserve semantics under recursion and branching, relying on keyword bootstrapping rather than pure symbolic reasoning.
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Diagnosing CFG Interpretation in LLMs
LLMs maintain surface syntax for novel CFGs but fail to preserve semantics under recursion and branching, relying on keyword bootstrapping rather than pure symbolic reasoning.