2 papers
cs.LG2026
CoTs remain monitorable when being unfaithful requires computation: Replicating and Extending the Necessity Effect Across Eleven Models
Arav Dhoot, Yixiong Hao, Zephaniah Roe
While a LLM's chain of thought (CoT) is a promising approach to interpreting model outputs, prior work shows CoT's content does not always accurately reflect the reasoning process.…
cs.AI2026
Iterative Finetuning is Mostly Idempotent
Zephaniah Roe, Jack Sanderson, Dang Nguyen +5
If a model has some behavioral tendency, such as sycophancy or misalignment, and it is trained on its own outputs, will the tendency be amplified in the next generation of models?…