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Comment by octoberfranklin

This is very hard for models to learn

That is not an accurate summary of the link you provided. The link demonstrates that it doesn't happen in open-weights models as of ~2025.

Reinforcement Learning is very likely to train this behavior if the RL reward is based on the thinking tokens. That's something people weren't doing two years ago.

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