Preprint
Jul 2026
Interventional Grounding Audits: Black-Box Premise-Dependency Tests for LLM Chain-of-Thought via Predicate Substitution
This work introduces interventional grounding audits, a black-box, step-level test of premise dependency, and identifies that 66% of correctly-solved problems contain at least one aligned step insensitive to a direct proof-tree dependency under consistent substitution.
H. Nakamura
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