arXiv:2605.28700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The GSM-Symbolic benchmark (Mirzadeh et al., 2025) reported consistent performance drops across 25 Large Language Models (LLMs) when tested on template-generated variants of GSM8K problems, concluding that the models lack genuine reasoning capabilities. We argue that this conclusion rests on shaky statistical ground. Re-evaluating 20 open-weight models using Generalised Linear Mixed Models with per-question random effects, we find that only half exhibit statistically significant performance changes under the original prompt format. Moreover, we i
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