# A Four-Stage Decomposition of Word-Problem Solving and Mechanistic Fragility in LLM Math Reasoning

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**Published:** 2026年9月17日
**Author:** Zhongdi Qu, Carla P. Gomes
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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Large language models solve grade-school math word problems with high accuracy, yet a single irrelevant clause inserted into the problem can collapse it. We reconcile these observations with a mechanistic account. We show that the model's internal computation decomposes into a…

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