Analyzing and Improving Chain-of-Thought Monitorability Through Information Theory

arXiv:2602.18297 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.IT, math.IT · Submitted 2026-02-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.IT, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-02-20

Updated: 2026-10-21

Terminology

• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Mutual Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Training Objective — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Training Objectives — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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