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Vasant Honavar

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Thinking Leakage: A Causal Audit of NoThink Post-Training in Hybrid Reasoning Models

Across three models and three post-training methods on competition math benchmarks, it is found that leakage is real, causal, and substantial: behavioral and representational analyses reveal shifts toward Think, and bidirectional interventions support a substantial causal contribution of thinking leakage.

Ze-Hao Liu, Vasant Honavar · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Parameter-free Adaptive Sparse Attention via Compression-Based Content Selection

This work shows that classical data compression provides an effective masking signal with no additional parameters, and identifies non-redundant content blocks and route long-range attention selectively through them by computing per-block gzip compression ratios.

Debarshi Kundu, Swaroop Ghosh, Vasant Honavar · 0 citations

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