3 papers
cs.AI2026
Diagnosing Pathological Chain-of-Thought in Reasoning Models
Manqing Liu, David Williams-King, Ida Caspary +5
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is fundamental to modern LLM architectures and represents a critical intervention point for AI safety. However, CoT reasoning may exhibit failure m…
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…
cs.AI2025
CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Benjamin Arnav, Pablo Bernabeu-Pérez, Nathan Helm-Burger +3
As AI models are deployed with increasing autonomy, it is important to ensure they do not take harmful actions unnoticed. As a potential mitigation, we investigate Chain-of-Thought…