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PublishedSeptember 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Overthinking: Amplifying Reasoning Weights to Extract Learned Secrets
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arXiv:2607.08173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Black box auditing of language models is an essential pre-deployment tool, but it may miss subtle forms of misalignment and hidden information. To better elicit hidden information during an auditing process, we introduce \emph{overthinking}: the pr
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