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pith:2025:CUUG3JOF7OUH3BZXF3JRYTLVTW

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When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Anurag Beniwal, Narayanan Sadagopan, Xiaomin Li, Xupeng Chen, Yingying Zhuang, Zhiwei Zhang, Zhou Yu, Ziji Zhang

arxiv:2505.11423 v3 · 2025-05-16 · cs.CL

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15286da5c5fba87d87372ed31c4d759d85572845495cc4aacad4e826b7462829

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arxiv: 2505.11423 · arxiv_version: 2505.11423v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.11423 · pith_short_12: CUUG3JOF7OUH · pith_short_16: CUUG3JOF7OUH3BZX · pith_short_8: CUUG3JOF

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CUUG3JOF7OUH3BZXF3JRYTLVTW \
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