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When Reasoning Traces Conflict with Evidence: How Answer Configuration Shapes Evidence Following
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arXiv:2610.20805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A reasoning trace retained at answer time plays two roles: it can raise accuracy, and it can compete with the current evidence when the two disagree. We disentangle these roles by crossing verified evidence versions with the traces generated from each and answering from the same traces and evidence under two configurations: continuation of the model's own thinking and a separate answer call. Across three model families (gpt-oss, Gemma4, Qwen3) on H
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