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Deletion Sensitivity Is a Property of the Model: A Three-Condition Measurement across Seven Open Reasoning Models

A blind, multi-seed study of seven open-weight reasoning models found that deleting reasoning history in multi-turn tool calling changes task scores by between -4.4 and +51.3 points, with both ends of that range excluding zero, according to arXiv paper 2611.13223v1. The measurement covered 794 tasks, three seeds, three rendering conditions and the official checker, and drew on 94k ShareGPT conversations in which 73 percent of user interactions span multiple turns. For the one model re-dosed from 0 to 100 percent deletion, the reading varied by at most 1.5 points, leading the authors to conclude that deletion sensitivity is a model-level property that should enter routing and aggregation as prior information rather than persist as an invisible default cost.

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arXiv:2611.13223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning models write a reasoning trace at every turn of a multi-turn tool session, and later turns read this history. Across 94k ShareGPT conversations, 73 percent of user interactions span multiple turns. Upstream providers bind each trace to its issuer, so a request forwarded across issuers arrives with its history deleted, and the task cost of this stripping remains unmeasured. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first direct, blind, multi-seed measurement of full reasoning-history deletion in multi-turn tool calling, through three rendering conditions, seven open-weight reasoning models, three seeds, 794 tasks, and the official checker. The same deletion spans -4.4 to +51.3 points with both ends excluding zero, and for the one model re-dosed from 0 to 100 percent deletion, the reading varies by at most 1.5 points. Deletion sensitivity is a model-level property. The reading follows the model itself and stays constant across deployments, and a retrained or re-released model is a new model that a two-cell screen, one retention run and one deletion run, re-reads for the cost of two runs. Deletion sensitivity is thus a measurable property of the model, and the reading must enter routing and aggregation as prior information rather than persist as an invisible default cost.

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