2 papers
cs.CL2026
Evaluation Awareness Is Not One Capability: Evidence from Open Language Models
Nilesh Nayan, Aishwarya Sampath Kumar, Rishiraj Girmal +5
Safety benchmarks assume that test-condition behavior predicts deployment behavior, an assumption that fails if models detect evaluation cues and adapt. This opens a gap between be…
cs.AI2026
Chain-of-Sanitized-Thoughts: Plugging PII Leakage in CoT of Large Reasoning Models
Arghyadeep Das, Sai Sreenivas Chintha, Rishiraj Girmal +2
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) improve performance, reliability, and interpretability by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but this transparency introduces a ser…