arXiv:2609.01449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models and recursive reasoners are both iterative, but they carry information across iterations differently. We add a persistent hidden state...
arXiv:2607. 15693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe a model of perceptual inference in primary visual cortex (V1) equivalent to a minimal diffusion model whose function can be readily understood from its parameters.
The paper investigates Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs), which are networks of recurrent cells that rely on local connectivity and asynchronous updates. It demonstrates that NCAs can solve complex visual reasoning tasks such as large mazes, Sudoku, and ARC-AGI-1, and that they generalize to larger grids, longer rollouts, and parallel trials. The study also shows that training with sample replay and stochastic perturbations enhances generalization, and that NCAs can recover from damage and scale to raw pixel reasoning.
arXiv:2610.09746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental imagery, ``seeing with the mind's eye'' is an essential aspect of human cognition. Despite rapid progress Large Language Models (LLMs) and Visio...
arXiv:2608. 19669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent reasoning has advanced multimodal reasoning through a two-stage training paradigm: (1) a helper image is encoded into latent tokens to teach visual chain-of-thought during a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage, and (2) these latent tokens are further refined with reward feedback during a reinforcement learning (RL) stage.
Flow Reasoning Models (FRMs) are a new framework that turns continuous flow models into efficient recurrent reasoners for structured tasks. By self‑conditioning a flow model on its own past outputs, FRMs iteratively refine solutions, allowing parallel decision making and revision. The authors introduce Fixed‑Point Forcing (FPF) to mitigate exposure bias at deeper recursion, and report near‑perfect solve rates on Sudoku‑Extreme, Zebra, and Maze‑Unique, outperforming existing masked‑diffusion and specialized baselines while using far fewer inference FLOPs.
Uni-LaDiR (Unified Latent Diffusion Reasoner) is a new framework that unifies multimodal reasoning by mapping teacher reasoning steps from different modalities into a shared latent space of thought tokens. It employs a diffusion model to predict the next block of thought tokens, jointly training the encoder and reasoner with shared weights to ensure tokens are both useful and predictable. The approach achieves relative gains of 7.3% on visual reasoning benchmarks and 6.1% on robot manipulation tasks compared to the strongest baselines.
Latent reasoning has advanced multimodal reasoning through a two-stage training paradigm: (1) a helper image is encoded into latent tokens to teach visual chain-of-thought during a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage, and (2) these latent tokens are further refined with reward feedback during a reinforcement learning (RL) stage. In this paper, we identify two key limitations of this framework, one in each stage.
Latent Recurrent Thoughts (LRT) proposes a method for reasoning with frozen large language models by operating in the model’s continuous representation space. A small auxiliary network generates initial latent vectors, which a tiny recurrent reasoner refines over multiple steps, decoupling computational depth from model size. Experiments on symbolic and natural‑language reasoning tasks show that LRT outperforms prior frozen‑decoder continuous‑space methods and chain‑of‑thought prompting while using far less inference compute.
arXiv:2610.09780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models excel at image synthesis, but they remain limited in their ability to reliably satisfy structured spatial reasoning constraints. In co...
arXiv:2607. 01170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative reasoning re-rankers achieve strong recommendation accuracy by emitting a chain-of-thought before re-ordering a candidate list, but they are slow at inference: an autoregressive (AR) decoder spends one sequential forward pass per reasoning token, and the reasoning trace far exceeds the ranking it produces.
arXiv:2603. 16870v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities.