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Xiaowei Yu

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Preprint Aug 2026

Lexical Perturbations Disrupt LLM Reasoning: An Empirical Study of Attention Diversion

Attention Diversion explains why inference-time strategies, including chain-of-thought prompting, spell-checking, self-repair, and stronger repair models, fail to consistently recover performance: each addresses one channel at a time.

Jiaqi Zhu, Yang Zhang, Junhua Ding et al. · 0 citations