Does Deeper Reasoning Compromise Alignment? Revealing and Mitigating of Alignment Collapse in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2609.08186 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Attacks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment Loss Rate — 1× in this paper
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reasoning Trap — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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