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BadThink: Triggered Overthinking Attacks on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Liu, Shuaitong, Li, Renjue, Yu, Lijia, Zhang, Lijun, Liu, Zhiming, Jin, Gaojie
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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