Researchers introduce black-box interventional grounding audits to test LLM premise dependency via predicate substitution; method replaces target predicates with fresh symbols and re-runs models to assess reasoning changes.
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2607.13069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models produce chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that appears logically sound yet may not genuinely depend on its stated premises. We introduce...
Original headline: "Interventional Grounding Audits: Black-Box Premise-Dependency Tests for LLM Chain-of-Thought via Predicate Substitution"