@article{250511423, title = {When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs}, author = {Xiaomin Li and Zhou Yu and Zhiwei Zhang and Xupeng Chen and Ziji Zhang and Yingying Zhuang and Narayanan Sadagopan and Anurag Beniwal}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2505.11423}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11423v2}, }