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Decision-Theoretic Steganography Detection for LLM Monitoring

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LLMs are developing capabilities to hide information in outputs to evade oversight. Provides formal framework for detecting steganographic behavior when classical methods fail. Relevant to agent security: models could embed hidden instructions in outputs across a chain. arXiv 2602.23163

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