Dipika Khullar

Self-At­tri­bu­tion Bias: When AI Mon­i­tors Go Easy on Themselves

• Dipika Khullar 4 Mar 2026 19:56 UTC

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  on: Re­cent LLMs can use filler to­kens or prob­lem re­peats to im­prove (no-CoT) math performance

  One thing I’m wondering is, how sensitive are these effects to prompting /​ formatting choices beyond the specific templates you used? I tried running some of these experiments and get different results based on whether the repeat/​filler is in system vs user message, or interleaved across messages