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Logical Judgments Under Pressure: Diagnosing Syllogistic Stability with Learned Soft Prefixes
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers used learned soft prefixes to override correct logical reasoning in large language models, causing 37 to 99 percentage point increases in wrong answers on syllogistic tasks.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building or deploying LLMs for logical reasoning, formal verification, or safety-critical applications need to understand this vulnerability.
- Watch out
- The study tested only three models and used a specific syllogistic benchmark; results may not generalize to other reasoning tasks or model architectures.
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