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Connor Watts

PhD student, Queen Mary, University of London

1 paper at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 5

Friday, December 5, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Large language models can learn and generalize steganographic chain-of-thought under process supervision

#1008 · Robert McCarthy, Joey SKAF, Luis Ibanez-Lissen, Vasil Georgiev, Connor Watts, Hannes Whittingham, Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Cameron Tice, Edward James Young, Puria Radmard, David Lindner

We show that penalizing certain CoT reasoning makes LLMs learn encoding schemes that generalize to unseen examples.