When Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade Monitors — mentioned by flyingpumba

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:55:38 GMT

First author here, surprised to see the paper in HN! :) When doing the paper we noticed that models are very good at generating post-hoc plausible CoT, which to me knowledge can happen quite often with relatively easy tasks. You might be interested in reading this other paper that came out after ours: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05246

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When Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade Monitors — mentioned by flyingpumba