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SPARK: Susceptibility-Guided Profiling and Steering of Latent Reasoning States in Large Language Models

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arXiv:2607. 10296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning failures in large language models (LLMs) are usually evaluated from final answers, but a wrong answer does not reveal why the model failed.

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