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Oct 14, 2026arXiv 2610.11765
Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To
Six language models tested in their no-thinking settings, by researchers at Tsinghua, Oxford and Stanford.

Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To