@article{theillusionofreasoningexposingevasivedat, title = {The Illusion of Reasoning: Exposing Evasive Data Contamination in LLMs via Zero-CoT Truncation}, author = {Yifan Lan and Yuanpu Cao and Hanyu Wang and Lu Lin and Jinghui Chen}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.21856}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21856}, }