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[new-research] arXiv:2609.29775 — Prefilling the Reasoning Channel: Output-Prefix Attacks on Reasoning LLMs #174

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arXiv ID: 2609.29775
Title: Prefilling the Reasoning Channel: Output-Prefix Attacks on Reasoning LLMs
Authors: Lukáš Brůna, Robert Bridges, Adam Ek
Published: 2026-09-24T13:18:21Z
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29775

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Large Language Models (LLMs) consume and produce a single sequence of text; hence, if text can be added to the beginning of the LLM's response, i.e., an output prefix, then all subsequent tokens will be conditioned on it. This output-prefix attack technique is a cheap black-box prompt injection. Pri…

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