Could Looped Models Resist Distillation Attacks by Reasoning in Latent Space?
moyix · x · 2026-10-09
Security researcher moyix poses an interesting hypothesis: looped models may be less susceptible to distillation attacks, since more of their 'reasoning' occurs in latent space rather than in executable chain-of-thought. If reasoning isn't externalized as text, copycats can't simply mimic it — an open question with implications for distillation defense.
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