@article{capableyetparsimoniousextractingandchara, title = {Capable yet Parsimonious: Extracting and Characterizing Hidden Chain-of-Thought in Frontier Models}, author = {Xiaoyu Luo and Tao Ren and Wenrui Yu and Xiao Li and Qiongxiu Li and Johannes Bjerva}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2609.26637}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26637}, }