{
  "id": "2502.15589",
  "title": "LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression",
  "authors": "Jintian Zhang, Yuqi Zhu, Mengshu Sun, Yujie Luo, Shuofei Qiao, Lun Du, Da Zheng, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang",
  "first_public": "2025-02-21",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2502.15589",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15589",
  "lens": [
    "internalized",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "distillation"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Compresses segments of a generated reasoning chain into dense states while retaining a stepwise inference process.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Jintian Zhang",
    "Yuqi Zhu",
    "Mengshu Sun",
    "Yujie Luo",
    "Shuofei Qiao",
    "Lun Du",
    "Da Zheng",
    "Huajun Chen",
    "Ningyu Zhang"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2502.15589/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2502-15589",
  "citation_date": "2025-02-21",
  "json_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2502.15589/record.json",
  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2502.15589/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2502.15589/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2502.15589/citation.csl.json"
}