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Two Regimes of Chain-of-Thought Unfaithfulness: Behavioral Detection Fails Where Models Are Wrong

2026 · arXiv.org · Vol abs/2607.23458 · 0 citations · 27 references
Computer Science

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A Au-diting black-box (behavioral) detection of un-faithful CoT against FaithCoT-Bench’s human annotations, and independently verify and resolve a documentation–data mismatch in the bench-mark’s label semantics.

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