Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models

Laura Ruis, Maximilian Mozes, Juhan Bae, S. Kamalakara, Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar +5 more
2/12/2026
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@article{ruis2026procedural,
  title  = {Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models},
  author = {Laura Ruis and Maximilian Mozes and Juhan Bae and S. Kamalakara and Dwaraknath Gnaneshwar and Acyr F. Locatelli and Robert Kirk and Tim Rocktäschel and E. Grefenstette and Max Bartolo},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:f138a3754099fed333f49ce60003f98c042caeb7},
  journal = {ICLR 2025 2025}
}

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