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LogicTrack: Auditing Reasoning Trajectories of Large Language Models with Formal Logic Solvers

arXiv cs.AI LLMs & Foundation Models Jingyu Hu, Shu Yang, Weiru Liu, Di Wang 2026-09-18
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TL;DR - LogicTrack is a neuro-symbolic framework that uses formal logic solvers to audit each step in an LLM’s chain of thought. It aims to improve both reasoning-chain validity and final-answer accuracy, addressing cases where models reach correct conclusions through flawed logic.

  • Automatically formalizes intermediate reasoning steps into symbolic representations and checks them with theorem provers.
  • Introduces Solver-Based Backtracking Reward, a step-level score that guides backtracking tree search during inference.
  • Generates supervised fine-tuning data containing backtracking traces, helping models internalize step-wise auditing.
  • Experiments spanning eight reasoning benchmarks and seven LLMs report improvements in reasoning verifiability and final-answer pass rate.

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