Dipika Khullar

Amplifying the weight difference between a reasoning model and its non-reasoning counterpart—creating an 'overthinking model'—surfaces hidden secrets up to 10× more often than the original reasoning m…

An ICML 2026 paper submitted July 9 reports that amplifying the weight-space difference between Qwen3-VL instruct and reasoning checkpoints made planted secrets or unintended behaviors surface up to 1…