arXiv AI

Interpreting Latent CoT Reasoning as Dynamical Systems

arXiv:2607. 09698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent latent reasoning methods, such as CODI and COCONUT, face a fundamental interpretability problem: they maintain multiple superimposed candidate traces in the hidden space at each step, unlike explicit- CoT, which follows a single transparent reasoning trace.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

How Hard Does It Think? Analyzing Step-Aware Reasoning Energy in LLM Chain-of-Thought Trajectories

arXiv:2607. 28674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how computational effort is allocated across individual chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning steps remains an open challenge: existing interpretability methods rely on output-level signals or collapse processing depth into a single trajectory-level scalar, leaving step-wise effort opaque.

By Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Sheldon Yu, Sizhe Zhou, Yizhu Jiao, Ming Zhong, Bowen Jin, Tong Yu, Shijia Pan, Jiawei Han, Julian McAuley
arXiv AI
Jun 3

LatentChem: From Textual CoT to Latent Thinking in Chemical Reasoning

arXiv:2602. 07075v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current chemical large language models (LLMs) predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to solve complex reasoning problems.

By Xinwu Ye, Yicheng Mao, Yuxuan Liao, Jia Zhang, Yimeng Liu, Li Hao, Fang Wu, Zhiwei Li, Zehong Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhenfei Yin, Li Yuan, Philip Torr, Huan Sun, xiangxiang Zeng, Mengdi Wang, Le Cong, Shenghua Gao, Xiangru Tang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Are Latent Reasoning Models Easily Interpretable?

arXiv:2604. 04902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Latent reasoning models (LRMs) have attracted significant research interest due to their low inference cost (relative to explicit reasoning models) and theoretical ability to explore multiple reasoning paths in parallel.

By Connor Dilgren, Sarah Wiegreffe