@article{fromreasoningtoanswerempiricalattentionb, title = {From Reasoning to Answer: Empirical, Attention-Based and Mechanistic Insights into Distilled DeepSeek R1 Models}, author = {Jue Zhang and Qingwei Lin and Saravan Rajmohan and Dongmei Zhang}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2509.23676}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23676}, }