arXiv Machine Learning August 11, 2026 By Connor Dilgren, Sarah Wiegreffe

Are Latent Reasoning Models Easily Interpretable?

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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.

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