3 papers
cs.CR2025
Can Reasoning Models Obfuscate Reasoning? Stress-Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
Artur Zolkowski, Wen Xing, David Lindner +2
Recent findings suggest that misaligned models may exhibit deceptive behavior, raising concerns about output trustworthiness. Chain-of-thought (CoT) is a promising tool for alignme…
cs.CR2025
Early Signs of Steganographic Capabilities in Frontier LLMs
Artur Zolkowski, Kei Nishimura-Gasparian, Robert McCarthy +2
Monitoring Large Language Model (LLM) outputs is crucial for mitigating risks from misuse and misalignment. However, LLMs could evade monitoring through steganography: Encoding hid…
cs.AI2025
Large language models can learn and generalize steganographic chain-of-thought under process supervision
Joey Skaf, Luis Ibanez-Lissen, Robert McCarthy +8
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning not only enhances large language model performance but also provides critical insights into decision-making processes, marking it as a useful tool…