Changelog | Implicit Chain-of-Thought

Changes to the reading list and website are listed below. You can follow updates through the RSS feed or download the history as changes.json.

For paper titles, summaries, and links, see recent additions.

v0.9.4 · October 18, 2026

Implicit CoT: proposal and implementation

Clarified the distinction between the 2023 implicit CoT proposal and its distillation implementation, with separate links to the original paper sections.
Added this context to the continuous-state guide, paper details, and JSON and Markdown downloads.
Paper titles, citations, categories, collection membership, date ordering and literature-check dates are unchanged.

Connections between methods

Added comparisons of stepwise internalization with Coconut and the 2023 hidden-state distillation method with CODI, linking directly to the relevant paper sections.
Made method comparisons available on the papers they discuss, in individual, topic and full-list JSON and Markdown downloads.
Paper titles, citations, collection membership, date ordering and literature-check dates are unchanged.

Search across implicit and latent terminology

Kept Implicit Chain-of-Thought as the main name and added latent reasoning terminology to the introduction and reading guides.
Added visible related terms to the 2023 implicit CoT and 2024 step-by-step internalization entries, including their JSON and Markdown downloads. Search accepts hyphenated and unhyphenated phrases.
Paper titles, citations, collection membership, date ordering and literature-check dates are unchanged.

Implicit chain-of-thought history

Added source-linked history of the 2023 implicit chain-of-thought proposal and 2024 step-by-step internalization work to the introduction, README and agent-facing reading guides.
Clarified the 2023 paper summary to distinguish the proposed framework from its knowledge-distillation implementation. Paper membership, categories and literature-check dates are unchanged.

Interactive examples

Added multiplication and math-word-problem demos to the homepage, Internalized reasoning guide and associated paper pages, with model details and limitations.
Included demo links and their method relationships in JSON and Markdown downloads. Paper citations, collection membership and literature-check dates are unchanged.

Reading-list review

Completed a full-text review of 16 papers, checking published versions where available. Retained nine and removed seven from the curated collection; no papers were added.
Updated the reading list, topic downloads and citation exports together. The collection now contains 207 papers plus eight background papers.

Individual paper pages and citation choices

Added permanent paper pages with individual JSON, Markdown, BibTeX and CSL-JSON downloads. Existing full-list links remain available.
Added source-linked method comparisons and topic-specific JSON and Markdown downloads.
Added separately verified published-version citations, preserving original preprint citations and chronology.
Updated the collection and added machine-readable record changes and removals for readers maintaining a local copy.

Literature refresh and recent additions

Added 145 source-checked papers: 127 first submitted since September 5 and 18 older omissions. The reading list now contains 253 papers plus eight background papers.
Checked the literature through October 18, 2026. The newest included paper was first submitted on October 15; coverage is not exhaustive.
Added a recent-additions page, sorting by the date papers joined the list, and addition dates and IDs in the JSON downloads and RSS feed.
Updated the title of Almost Free State Prediction Separation (formerly Free Pause Tokens) and the author lists of PLaT and LoopRPT from revised arXiv records.

Clearer explanations and easier browsing

Added concrete examples to the introduction and each topic guide, with one consistent set of categories across the site.
Made search and approach filters easier to reach; placed specialized filters under More filters while preserving shared search links.
Rewrote 27 paper summaries for clarity, including corrections to the descriptions of SoftCoT, Chain-of-Embedding, and Latent Language Modeling.
Simplified downloads, citation guidance, and paper suggestions. Kept structured files and paper identifiers compatible.
Literature-search coverage remains September 5, 2026; this release does not add new papers.

First public research-map release

Introduced a curated map of 108 core papers and eight separately labeled precursors, with six research guides and oldest-first chronologies.
Preserved the ICLR 2026 workshop program and event pages as an archive.
Added CSL-JSON citations, ordered author names, explicit record URLs, and a full Markdown reading list from the shared corpus.
Aligned BibTeX and CSL citations with arXiv preprints and initial submission dates, separately from chronology and later venues.
Added scholarly structured data for every core record and enabled exact arXiv-ID and venue searches.
Opened paper-suggestion and correction workflows, with CC BY 4.0 reuse terms for original curation and editorial material.
Acknowledged Awesome-Latent-CoT and retained per-record discovery provenance. Literature-search coverage is dated September 5, 2026.