Hidden Reasoning Must Leak, but Need Not Be Readable: Fundamental Opportunities and Limits for Chain-of-Thought Monitoring

arXiv:2609.37312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can reasoning models trick chain of thought (CoT) monitors and perform hidden computation without revealing it in their thinking traces? We show that the answer depends on the underlying task…

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