Papers with deep mechanistic analysis
METER: Evaluating Multi-Level Contextual Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks evaluate contextual causal reasoning in fragmented settings, failing to ensure context consistency or cover the full causal hierarchy. |
| Approach: | They use a unified context to benchmark large language models' contextual causal reasoning skills. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that LLMs are susceptible to distraction by irrelevant but factually correct information at lower level of causality. |