Comprehension Without Competence: Architectural Limits of LLMs in Symbolic Computation and Reasoning

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Main Author:	Zhang, Zheng
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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