Method Drift›LLM reasoning / chain-of-thought
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external CoT monitoring
LLM reasoning / chain-of-thought
superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods
1 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks
What papers say
Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites external CoT monitoring as a baseline.
“However, a critical concern is that if models are directly penalized for showing deceptive thoughts, they might hide those thoughts rather than truly abandoning the deception.”
— Mitigating Deceptive Alignment via Self-Monitoring
Newer alternatives
Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base.
- May 19, 2026
- May 4, 2026