arxivcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-06
Context-Masked Truncated Reasoning Audits for Answer-Key Dependence in LLM Tutors
Bonan Shen, Dingyan Shang, Youting Wang, Tao Ning, Bowen Liu
Large language model (LLM) tutors may have access to teacher notes, answer keys, rubrics, or retrieved solutions while producing student-facing explanations. We study whether truncated reasoning probes can distinguish direct access to such private context from answer information…