monitorability
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Wrongness lives in the reasoning, not just the answer: cross-position transfer of a token-level error probe in chain-of-thought
A linear probe on a language model's hidden states can detect whether a stated arithmetic fact is wrong, and recent work on chain-of-thought faithfulness has made it urgent to know where in a reasoning trace such a wrongness signal lives (Chen et al., 2025) (Turpin et al., 2023).
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Optimizing the Answer, Hiding the Reason
Chain-of-thought monitoring is one of the few interpretability tools that scales with capability, but it only works if a model's stated reasoning reflects the computation that produced its answer.