{
  "id": "2505.14530",
  "title": "Internal Chain-of-Thought: Empirical Evidence for Layer-wise Subtask Scheduling in LLMs",
  "authors": "Zhipeng Yang, Junzhuo Li, Siyu Xia, Xuming Hu",
  "first_public": "2025-05-20",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2505.14530",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14530",
  "code_url": "https://github.com/yzp11/Internal-Chain-of-Thought",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
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  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
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    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Presents evidence that transformer layers schedule intermediate subtasks internally, offering a layer-wise view of implicit reasoning.",
  "provenance": "Awesome-Latent-CoT",
  "author_names": [
    "Zhipeng Yang",
    "Junzhuo Li",
    "Siyu Xia",
    "Xuming Hu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2025-05-20",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2505.14530/index.md",
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