% Verified published versions only; this is a subset, not the full reading list.
@inproceedings{lit_2310_02226_published,
  title = { {Think before you speak: Training Language Models With Pause Tokens} },
  author = {Sachin Goyal and Ziwei Ji and Ankit Singh Rawat and Aditya Krishna Menon and Sanjiv Kumar and Vaishnavh Nagarajan},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  volume = {2024},
  pages = {27896-27923},
  url = {https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/76917808731dae9e6d62c2a7a6afb542-Abstract-Conference.html}
}

@inproceedings{lit_2402_07754_published,
  title = { {Diffusion of Thought: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models} },
  author = {Jiacheng Ye and Shansan Gong and Liheng Chen and Lin Zheng and Jiahui Gao and Han Shi and Chuan Wu and Xin Jiang and Zhenguo Li and Wei Bi and Lingpeng Kong},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
  volume = {37},
  pages = {105345-105374},
  doi = {10.52202/079017-3343},
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/be30024e7fa2c29cac7a6dafcbb8571f-Abstract-Conference.html}
}

@inproceedings{lit_2402_16837_published,
  title = { {Do Large Language Models Latently Perform Multi-Hop Reasoning?} },
  author = {Sohee Yang and Elena Gribovskaya and Nora Kassner and Mor Geva and Sebastian Riedel},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages = {10210-10229},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.550},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.550/}
}

@inproceedings{lit_2412_06769_published,
  title = { {Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space} },
  author = {Shibo Hao and Sainbayar Sukhbaatar and DiJia Su and Xian Li and Zhiting Hu and Jason E Weston and Yuandong Tian},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025)},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Itxz7S4Ip3}
}

@inproceedings{lit_2502_05171_published,
  title = { {Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach} },
  author = {Jonas Geiping and Sean McLeish and Neel Jain and John Kirchenbauer and Siddharth Singh and Brian Bartoldson and Bhavya Kailkhura and Abhinav Bhatele and Tom Goldstein},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
  volume = {38},
  pages = {41340-41391},
  doi = {10.52202/085713-1380},
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/hash/3b01972cf31e6fa0fe29e4b8b5c2a0a1-Abstract-Conference.html}
}

@inproceedings{lit_2502_07827_published,
  title = { {Implicit Language Models are RNNs: Balancing Parallelization and Expressivity} },
  author = {Mark Schöne and Babak Rahmani and Heiner Kremer and Fabian Falck and Hitesh Ballani and Jannes Gladrow},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  publisher = {PMLR},
  volume = {267},
  pages = {53439-53466},
  url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v267/schone25a.html}
}

@inproceedings{lit_2502_21074_published,
  title = { {CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation} },
  author = {Zhenyi Shen and Hanqi Yan and Linhai Zhang and Zhanghao Hu and Yali Du and Yulan He},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages = {677-693},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.36},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.36/}
}