The Concrete-Arbitrary Gap: Kinship Reasoning in LLMs Is Not Indifferent to Presentation

arXiv:2609.39913 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/tompashby/concrete-arbitrary-gap

Terminology

• Accuracy — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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