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:2608. 13570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent reasoning has emerged as a powerful alternative to text-based Chain-of-Thought (CoT), offering significant gains in computational efficiency by compressing verbose reasoning into compact embeddings.
By Dayuan Zhao, Shengcao Cao, Yu-Xiong Wang, Liang-Yan Gui
arXiv:2608. 13317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model based multi-agent systems usually communicate in text, i.
By Yanwen Peng, Delvin Ce Zhang, Xi Wang, Nikolaos Aletras
arXiv:2511. 09149v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While natural language is the de facto communication medium for LLM-based agents, it presents a fundamental constraint.
By Zhuoyun Du, Runze Wang, Huiyu Bai, Zouying Cao, Xiaoyong Zhu, Yu Cheng, Bo Zheng, Wei Chen, Haochao Ying
arXiv:2606. 02871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models improve performance by generating extended chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but this behavior becomes inefficient when applied to LLM agents.
By Dongwon Jung, Peng Shi, Yi Zhang, Junshan Zhang, Muhao Chen
arXiv:2604. 25917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recursive or looped language models have recently emerged as a new scaling axis by iteratively refining the same model computation over latent states to deepen reasoning.
By Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan, Ruizhong Qiu, Pan Lu, Shizhe Diao, Jindong Jiang, Hanghang Tong, Tong Zhang, Markus J. Buehler, Jingrui He, James Zou
arXiv:2602. 00471v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Visual Multi-Agent Systems (VMAS) promise to enhance comprehensive abilities through inter-agent collaboration, empirical evidence reveals a counter-intuitive "scaling wall": increasing agent turns often degrades performance while exponentially inflating token costs.
By Xinlei Yu, Chengming Xu, Zhangquan Chen, Bo Yin, Cheng Yang, Yongbo He, Yihao Hu, Jiangning Zhang, Cheng Tan, Xiaobin Hu, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv:2606. 06447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models often improve reasoning by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), demonstrating the importance of intermediate computation.
By Guancheng Tu, Xiangjun Fu, Suhao Yu, Yao Tang, Haoqiang Kang, Lianhui Qin, Yizhe Zhang, Jiatao Gu
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:2606. 12018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a multi-agent collaborative framework built upon a lightweight Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM), specifically designed for social intelligence reasoning.
By Shang Ma, Jisheng Dang, Wencan Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Bimei Wang, Hong Peng, Bin Hu, Qi Tian, Tat-Seng Chua
Large language models often improve reasoning by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), demonstrating the importance of intermediate computation. However, textual CoT forces this computation through a discrete, serial, and communication-oriented token stream: each reasoning step must be verbalized before the model can proceed, even when the underlying update is semantic, uncertain, or only partially formed.
arXiv:2606. 16222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on intermediate reasoning, yet explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) suffers from a linguistic space bottleneck: each thought must be decoded into tokens, causing high inference overhead.
By Xiandong Zou, Jing Huang, Jianshu Li, Pan Zhou