Summary
After consistency repair, most remaining mistakes are not contradictions. The answer drifts away from commitments the state still satisfies.
Reasoning
Residual Drift Dominates Contradiction in Multi-Turn Constraint Reasoning
Abstract
Shows that after solver-guided repair, the dominant failure mode is not contradiction but satisfiable drift, where the maintained state remains consistent while the returned answer violates prior commitments.
Highlight
816 problems · 4 open-weight models · 68-95% of residual errors are satisfiable drift