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TopicsLarge language models Chain-of-Thought Monitorability

Training can exert optimization pressure on chains of thought even when they are not directly rewarded.

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Even if reward is not directly computed from CoT, model training can still exert some optimization pressure on chains-of-thought.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11473extraction 0.75

Examples given: shared weights between CoT and output generation, CoT shown to human raters, and using CoT monitoring to patch reward hacks across runs.

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