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Length Penalties Make Chain-of-Thought Less Monitorable

Little, Bryce
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Recent work trains reasoning models with length penalties to curb overthinking and cut inference cost. We show that these penalties make the chain of thought less monitorable. A length-compressed model still lets misleading hints steer its answers, but it less often verbalizes their influence. We tr
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