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The Point of No Return: Counterfactual Localization of Deceptive Commitment in Language-Model Reasoning

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Main Authors:	Merrill, Scott, Srivastava, Shashank
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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