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What Affects CoT Monitorability Across The Model Lifecycle?

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OpenAI researchers study how pretraining, architecture, reinforcement learning and model-generated data affect two proxies for chain-of-thought monitorability: no-CoT capability and CoT controllability. They report that no-CoT capability rises smoothly as base model perplexity falls, and that CoT controllability increases during RL even without process supervision beyond length constraints and final answer grading.