@article{theparadoxofoutcomeoptimizationacausalin,
  title = {The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs},
  author = {Zihan Chen and Yiming Zhang and Wenxiang Geng and Zenghui Ding and Yining Sun},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.00674},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00674},
}