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Do Language Models Follow Occam's Razor? An Evaluation of Parsimony in Inductive and Abductive Reasoning

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Main Authors:	Sun, Yunxin, Saparov, Abulhair
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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