@article{sustainedgradientalignmentmediatessublim, title = {Sustained Gradient Alignment Mediates Subliminal Learning in a Multi-Step Setting: Evidence from MNIST Auxiliary Logit Distillation Experiment}, author = {Chayanon Kitkana and Shivam Arora}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.25779}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25779}, }