A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior

arXiv:2602.02639 · cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-02-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-02-02

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Adversarial Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Normalized Simulatability Gain — 1× in this paper

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