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Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking

Xuan Shen, Yizhou Wang, Yufa Zhou, Xiangxi Shi, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang, Jiuxiang Gu

Compresses visible reasoning into hidden thinking states to reduce generated reasoning length while preserving task performance.

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arXiv:2501.19201 · Initial submission: 2025-01-31

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Internalized reasoning — Learn from worked solutions so that some or all of the reasoning can later happen without writing those steps. Training may use a separate teacher model or progressively remove written steps from the model being trained.

Continuous-state reasoning — Use vectors—lists of numbers—to carry intermediate reasoning from one step to the next, instead of selecting a text token at every step. Some methods use the model's hidden states; others combine several candidate token representations.

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