@article{theillusionoftextitwhatifevaluatingthebr,
  title = {The Illusion of $\textit{What If}$: Evaluating the Breakdown of Counterfactual Reasoning in LLMs},
  author = {Yucheng Wang and Yuetian Du and Zhengyi Liu and Rongyu Zhang and Bing Zhao and Boyu Yang and Ming Kong and Lin Qu and Hu Wei and Jie Liu and Qiang Zhu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2608.27953},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27953},
}