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SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens

Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng, Yaochen Zhu, Zaiyi Zheng, Lin Su, Sriram Vasudevan, Qi Guo, Liangjie Hong, Jundong Li

Compresses textual reasoning into semantically aligned implicit tokens intended to preserve useful intermediate computation with fewer generated steps.

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arXiv:2510.24940 · Initial submission: 2025-10-28

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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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