{
  "id": "2511.21581",
  "title": "Learning When to Stop: Adaptive Latent Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning",
  "authors": "Alex Ning, Yen-Ling Kuo, Gabe Gomes",
  "first_public": "2025-11-26",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2511.21581",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21581",
  "code_url": "https://github.com/apning/adaptive-latent-reasoning",
  "lens": [
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "reinforcement-learning"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "controllability",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Learns a stopping policy for continuous latent reasoning so the model can allocate a variable number of internal steps.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Alex Ning",
    "Yen-Ling Kuo",
    "Gabe Gomes"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2025-11-26",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2511.21581/index.md",
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