{
  "id": "2610.02741",
  "title": "On the Chain-of-Thought Monitorability of Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Han Wang, Ishwar B Balappanawar, Huan Zhang",
  "first_public": "2026-10-02",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.02741",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02741",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state",
    "text-latent-hybrid"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "evaluation",
    "interpretability",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "boundary"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Tests how recurrent depth affects the ability to monitor a language model through its written chain of thought. Finds task-dependent changes under stress tests, while matched comparisons do not show a general monitorability disadvantage for looped architectures.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Han Wang",
    "Ishwar B Balappanawar",
    "Huan Zhang"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-02",
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