Reasoning models often determine refusal of harmful requests early in the chain-of-thought, with the opening sentence in distilled models fully controlling the outcome and patterns transferring across models from the same teacher.
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Reasoning models often determine refusal of harmful requests early in the chain-of-thought, with the opening sentence in distilled models fully controlling the outcome and patterns transferring across models from the same teacher.