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The Illusion of Reasoning: Exposing Evasive Data Contamination in LLMs via Zero-CoT Truncation

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Main Authors:	Lan, Yifan, Cao, Yuanpu, Wang, Hanyu, Lin, Lu, Chen, Jinghui
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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