Strong Memory, Weak Control: An Empirical Study of Executive Functioning in LLMs

Karin de Langis, Jong Inn Park, Khanh Chi Le, Andreas Schramm, Andrew Elfenbein, Michael C. Mensink, Dongyeop Kang. Strong Memory, Weak Control: An Empirical Study of Executive Functioning in LLMs. In Vera Demberg, Kentaro Inui, LluĂ­s Marquez, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2026 - Volume 1: Long Papers, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026. pages 5971-5986, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

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Karin de Langis

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Jong Inn Park

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Khanh Chi Le

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