What if LLMs Ate Their Words: Causal History Effects in Multi-Turn Interaction

arXiv:2609.05882 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-05

Updated: 2026-09-05

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures. Code and data are available at https://github.com/jinnanli/llms-ate-their-words

Code: https://github.com/jinnanli/llms-ate-their-words

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

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