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  "id": "2512.02240",
  "title": "Lightweight Latent Reasoning for Narrative Tasks",
  "authors": "Alexander Gurung, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Mirella Lapata",
  "first_public": "2025-12-01",
  "added_at": "2026-11-03",
  "venue": "TACL 2026",
  "arxiv": "2512.02240",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02240",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2512.02240v2",
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    "continuous"
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    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
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  "modality": [
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  ],
  "summary": "Trains a small projector to replace parts of a written reasoning trace with continuous embeddings. Reinforcement learning teaches the language model when to use these latent steps for plot-hole detection and story generation.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-03",
  "author_names": [
    "Alexander Gurung",
    "Esmeralda S. Whitammer",
    "Mirella Lapata"
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  "publication": {
    "title": "Lightweight Latent Reasoning for Narrative Tasks",
    "author_names": [
      "Alexander Gurung",
      "Esmeralda S. Whitammer",
      "Mirella Lapata"
    ],
    "year": 2026,
    "type": "article-journal",
    "container_title": "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    "pages": "2163-2186",
    "publisher": "MIT Press",
    "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.tacl-1.98/",
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    "verified_at": "2026-11-03",
    "volume": "14"
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