arXiv:2607. 20952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent, or silent, reasoning lets language models carry out intermediate computation in continuous vector space instead of words, and is widely assumed to function as an internal scratchpad the model actively consults during inference.
By Ishan S. Kshirsagar
arXiv:2606. 29164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent reasoning models perform multi-step inference directly in hidden-state space, yet the structure of these latent reasoning trajectories remains poorly understood.
By Arun Vignesh Malarkkan, Manan Roy Choudhury, Utkarsh Byahut, Yash Ravindra Charde, Vivek Gupta, Yanjie Fu
arXiv:2606. 00726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Strong reasoning depends not only on model knowledge but also on how effectively cognitive behaviors are deployed during generation.
By Jiakang Li, Guanyu Zhu, Can Jin, Chenxi Huang, Dexu Yu, Ronghao Chen, Yang Zhou, Hongwu Peng, Xuanqi Lan, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Youhua Li
arXiv:2606. 06252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work moves intermediate reasoning from natural-language traces into latent or cache-level representations to reduce token overhead and avoid a discrete communication bottleneck.
By Xiaopeng Yuan, Haibo Jin, Ye Yu, Peng Kuang, Lijun Yu, Yushun Dong, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2511. 16886v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently, small models with latent recursion have obtained promising results on complex reasoning tasks.
By Arip Asadulaev, Rayan Banerjee, Fakhri Karray, Martin Takac
arXiv:2604. 06374v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Latent reasoning via continuous chain-of-thoughts (Latent CoT) has emerged as a promising alternative to discrete CoT reasoning.
By Michael Rizvi-Martel, Guillaume Rabusseau, Marius Mosbach
arXiv:2608. 02585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimization-based latent reasoning improves large language model outputs by optimizing instance-specific continuous states at test time while keeping model parameters frozen.
By Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen, Hengli Li, Zhaowei Zhang, Song-Chun Zhu, Chi Zhang, Zilong Zheng
arXiv:2607. 18100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extended reasoning has become standard for frontier Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the trajectories these models produce remain largely uncontrollable.
By Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, Xunyi Jiang, Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Sungchul Kim, Lina Yao, Julian McAuley, Junda Wu
arXiv:2606. 01243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent reasoning enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform multi-step inference within continuous hidden states, offering efficiency gains over explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT).
By Shuochen Chang, Tong Bai, Xiaofeng Zhang, Qianli Ma, Qingyang Liu, Zhaohe Liao, Yibo Miao, Li Niu
arXiv:2608. 04124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video question answering requires models to ground language queries in visual evidence and, when necessary, reason over that evidence across time.
By Haotian Xia, Zilin Xiao, Junbo Zou, Vicente Ordonez, Hanjie Chen
arXiv:2606. 16360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting improves reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by externalizing intermediate computation as discrete text tokens, but this textual interface also introduces redundancy and inference overhead.
By Hanyu Lin, Min Cai, Jiawei Wen, Haodi Zhang
arXiv:2606. 03741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon reasoning requires a system to commit to medium-horizon intent without becoming rigid: re-plan too often and computation never coheres into multi-step structure; commit too long and the plan goes stale.
By Ayushi Chadha