@article{bypassingtherationalecausalauditingofimp,
  title = {Bypassing the Rationale: Causal Auditing of Implicit Reasoning in Language Models},
  author = {Anish Sathyanarayanan and Aditya Nagarsekar and Aarush Rathore},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.03994},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03994},
}