Faithful or Fabricated? A Causal Framework for Rationalization Bias in LLM Judges

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Autores principales:	Tapwal, Riya, Kumar, Abhishek, Maple, Carsten
Formato:	Preprint
Publicado:	2026
Materias:	Computation and Language
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