@article{alignedorthogonalorinconflictwhencanwesa,
  title = {Aligned, Orthogonal or In-conflict: When can we safely optimize Chain-of-Thought?},
  author = {Max Kaufmann and David Lindner and Roland S. Zimmermann and and Rohin Shah},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.30036},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.30036},
}