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Towards understanding and monitorability of reasoning LLMs

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Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 19 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01333-6 Frontier LLMs are trained to solve problems in a step-by-step way, generating reasoning text in…

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