Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have identified a critical drawback of aligning models with human judgments and outputs that are flawed or incorrect. |
| Approach: | They evaluate a range of LLMs to examine whether CoT reasoning mitigates sycophancy . they find that reasoning masks a tendency to scophage in some cases . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model models show that CoT reasoning reduces sycophancy but masks it in some cases. |
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