Beyond the Answer: Decoding the Behavior of LLMs as Scientific Reasoners

arXiv:2603.28038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve increasingly sophisticated performance on complex reasoning tasks, current architectures serve as critical proxies for the internal heuristics of frontier models. Characterizing emergent reasoning is vital for long-term interpretability and safety. Furthermore, understanding how prompting modulates these processes is essential, as natural language will likely be the primary interface for interacting with AGI