APA (7th ed.) Citation

Chen, Z., Zhang, Y., Geng, W., Ding, Z., & Sun, Y. (2026). The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs.

Chicago Style (17th ed.) Citation

Chen, Zihan, Yiming Zhang, Wenxiang Geng, Zenghui Ding, and Yining Sun. The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs. 2026.

MLA (9th ed.) Citation

Chen, Zihan, et al. The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs. 2026.