@article{ideafirstcodelaterdisentanglingproblemso,
  title = {Idea First, Code Later: Disentangling Problem Solving from Code Generation in Evaluating LLMs for Competitive Programming},
  author = {Sama Hadhoud and Alaa Elsetohy and Frederikus Hudi and Jan Christian Blaise Cruz and Steven Halim and Alham Fikri Aji},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.11332},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11332},
}