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When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 21 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.11423.

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From Token to Action: State Machine Reasoning to Mitigate Overthinking in Information Retrieval cites this paper.

From Token to Action: State Machine Reasoning to Mitigate Overthinking in Information Retrieval When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 6

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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity cites this paper.

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 50

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On the Surprising Efficacy of LLMs for Penetration-Testing cites this paper.

On the Surprising Efficacy of LLMs for Penetration-Testing When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 65

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AutoTIR: Autonomous Tools Integrated Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

AutoTIR: Autonomous Tools Integrated Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

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ProactiveEval: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Proactive Dialogue Agents cites this paper.

ProactiveEval: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Proactive Dialogue Agents When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 27

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A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models cites this paper.

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 285

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Observation a18bf195-318a-4464-8997-06b27c88909a · inbound

"GenAI Defaults to Bias!" Gamify AI Literacy Through Reflections on Prompts cites this paper.

"GenAI Defaults to Bias!" Gamify AI Literacy Through Reflections on Prompts When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 42

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Retrieval-of-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Reusing Thoughts cites this paper.

Retrieval-of-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Reusing Thoughts When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 14

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Position: The Hidden Costs and Measurement Gaps of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards cites this paper.

Position: The Hidden Costs and Measurement Gaps of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

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M3CoTBench: Benchmark Chain-of-Thought of MLLMs in Medical Image Understanding cites this paper.

M3CoTBench: Benchmark Chain-of-Thought of MLLMs in Medical Image Understanding When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 49

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Observation ed3d7412-c7c4-418a-bb5b-199f77ac88cd · inbound

LightThinker++: From Reasoning Compression to Memory Management cites this paper.

LightThinker++: From Reasoning Compression to Memory Management When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 41

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Chain of Risk: Safety Failures in Large Reasoning Models and Mitigation via Adaptive Multi-Principle Steering cites this paper.

Chain of Risk: Safety Failures in Large Reasoning Models and Mitigation via Adaptive Multi-Principle Steering When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 20

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DataDignity: Training Data Attribution for Large Language Models cites this paper.

DataDignity: Training Data Attribution for Large Language Models When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 7

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Observation e081aa12-7fc9-4bc5-b2ed-5278339ea8f1 · inbound

More Is Not Always Better: Cross-Component Interference in LLM Agent Scaffolding cites this paper.

More Is Not Always Better: Cross-Component Interference in LLM Agent Scaffolding When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 16

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CLORE: Content-Level Optimization for Reasoning Efficiency cites this paper.

CLORE: Content-Level Optimization for Reasoning Efficiency When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 28

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Observation e557b1c8-cf1e-4057-9d9a-c1152bca9336 · inbound

Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language cites this paper.

Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 192

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Observation 44e21807-6963-43e2-b65c-c109e9fd7e92 · inbound

When Built-in Thinking Helps and Hurts: Constraint-Level Error Shifts in Instruction Following cites this paper.

When Built-in Thinking Helps and Hurts: Constraint-Level Error Shifts in Instruction Following When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

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Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models cites this paper.

Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 44

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Structured Thoughts For Improved Reasoning And Context Pruning cites this paper.

Structured Thoughts For Improved Reasoning And Context Pruning When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 62

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When Reasoning Hurts Legal Drafting: The Verbalization Bottleneck in Patent Claim Generation cites this paper.

When Reasoning Hurts Legal Drafting: The Verbalization Bottleneck in Patent Claim Generation When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

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SFT Conflicts, RL Coexists: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Multi-Task Learning for LLMs cites this paper.

SFT Conflicts, RL Coexists: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Multi-Task Learning for LLMs When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs

Reference 40

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