Context-Masked Truncated Reasoning Audits for Answer-Key Dependence in LLM Tutors

arXiv:2607.04572 · cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-06 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-06

Updated: 2026-09-05

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 2× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Self-consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
• Detecting Unfaithful Chain-of-Thought via Circuit-Guided Internal-External Discrepancy
• Solving math word problems with process- and outcome-based feedback
• SafeTutors: Benchmarking Pedagogical Safety in AI Tutoring Systems

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