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PublishedOctober 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Does Latent Chain-of-Thought Actually Reason? A Single, Unifying Taxonomy for Latent Reasoning
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arXiv:2610.21182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent chain-of-thought replaces written reasoning steps with continuous hidden states, giving models additional steps to compute before answering. It remains unclear what computation these steps actually perform. High task accuracy and decodable inter
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