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.
The focus here is on the method, but it’s crucial to consider the broader implications
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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.