{
  "id": "2512.21711",
  "title": "Do Latent Tokens Think? A Causal and Adversarial Analysis of Chain-of-Continuous-Thought",
  "authors": "Yuyi Zhang, Boyu Tang, Tianjie Ju, Sufeng Duan, Gongshen Liu",
  "first_public": "2025-12-25",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2512.21711",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21711",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "boundary"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Tests COCONUT with latent-state interventions and deliberately biased examples on MMLU and HotpotQA. Finds weak sensitivity to steering and dependence on dataset shortcuts in the evaluated models, challenging whether their intermediate states faithfully carry the reasoning.",
  "provenance": "Awesome-Latent-CoT; primary sources checked 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Yuyi Zhang",
    "Boyu Tang",
    "Tianjie Ju",
    "Sufeng Duan",
    "Gongshen Liu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2025-12-25",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2512.21711/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2512.21711/citation.bib",
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