ThinkSafe: Self-Generated Safety Alignment for Reasoning Models

arXiv:2601.23143 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-01-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-01-30

Updated: 2026-10-30

Terminology

• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 26 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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