When Reasoning Traces Conflict with Evidence: How Answer Configuration Shapes Evidence Following

arXiv:2610.20805 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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