Scaling Reasoning, Losing Control: Evaluating Instruction Following in Large Reasoning Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in reasoning-oriented models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in mathematical reasoning, but their ability to adhere to user directives remains underexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate instruction-following in mathematical reasoning tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model degrades in instruction adherence when generation length increases, but can partially recover obedience, despite increasing generation length. |
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