{
  "id": "2507.02199",
  "title": "Latent Chain-of-Thought? Decoding the Depth-Recurrent Transformer",
  "authors": "Wenquan Lu, Yuechuan Yang, Kyle Lee, Yanshu Li, Enqi Liu",
  "first_public": "2025-07-02",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2507.02199",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02199",
  "code_url": "https://github.com/wenquanlu/huginn-latent-cot",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Probes a depth-recurrent transformer to test what its repeated hidden-state computation represents and whether it behaves like a latent chain of thought.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Wenquan Lu",
    "Yuechuan Yang",
    "Kyle Lee",
    "Yanshu Li",
    "Enqi Liu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2025-07-02",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2507.02199/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2507.02199/citation.bib",
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