{
  "id": "2608.04928",
  "title": "Does Out-of-Sight Equal Out-of-Mind in CoT Monitorability?",
  "authors": "Pedro Ferreira, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov",
  "first_public": "2026-08-05",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2608.04928",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04928",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state",
    "text-latent-hybrid"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "evaluation",
    "interpretability",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Compares monitoring from explicit traces, latent-state probes, and latent verbalizations, finding that monitorability depends strongly on task structure and level of internal access.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-05",
  "author_names": [
    "Pedro Ferreira",
    "Wilker Aziz",
    "Ivan Titov"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-08-05",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2608.04928/index.md",
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