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PublishedJuly 20, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Beyond a Single Direction: Chain-of-Thought Disrupts Simple Steering of Refusal
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arXiv:2605.26772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate chain-of-thought (CoT) traces before producing final outputs, introducing a dynamic internal state that may complicate control mechanisms such as refusal. Unlike instruction-tuned LLMs, where refusal is mediated
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