{
  "id": "2504.10615",
  "title": "Beyond Chains of Thought: Benchmarking Latent-Space Reasoning Abilities in Large Language Models",
  "authors": "Thilo Hagendorff, Sarah Fabi",
  "first_public": "2025-04-14",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2504.10615",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10615",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
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  ],
  "questions": [
    "evaluation",
    "capability",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
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    "boundary"
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  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Encodes the answer in the language of the model's first response token, forcing a choice before any written explanation. Also tests whether successful answers could come from simple heuristics.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Thilo Hagendorff",
    "Sarah Fabi"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2025-04-14",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2504.10615/index.md",
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