@article{contextualdraghowerrorsinthecontextaffec, title = {Contextual Drag: How Errors in the Context Affect LLM Reasoning}, author = {Yun Cheng and Xingyu Zhu and Haoyu Zhao and Sanjeev Arora}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.04288}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04288}, }