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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational2 October 2026

Tool Use Reduces Depth-Induced Collapse in OOD Reasoning

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arXiv:2602.21061v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans can apply ideas learned in one context to substantially different situations. We call this process of searching for and constructing novel recombinations of learned relationships to solve new problems \textit{out-of-distribution (OOD) reasoning}. The capacity for large language models (LLMs) to support OOD reasoning underpins proposals for generally intelligent systems. However, this property is challenging to measure because most problems admit many decompositions, some involving shallow subproblems and others involving subproblems th
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