Lie to Me: How Faithful Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Reasoning Models?

ArXi:2603.22582v1 Announce Type: cross Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been proposed as a transparency mechanism for large language models in safety-critical deployments, yet its effectiveness depends on faithfulness (whether models accurately verbalize the factors that actually influence their outputs), a property that prior evaluations have examined in only two