Hiding in Plain Sight: Detectability-Aware Antidistillation of Reasoning Models

arXiv:2604.23238 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-04-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-04-25

Updated: 2026-10-10

Terminology

• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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