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  "id": "2601.21358",
  "title": "Latent Chain-of-Thought as Planning: Decoupling Reasoning from Verbalization",
  "authors": "Jiecong Wang, Hao Peng, Zhanyi Wang, Chunyang Liu, Guanlin Wu",
  "first_public": "2026-01-29",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2601.21358",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21358",
  "code_url": "https://github.com/yunsaijc/PLaT",
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    "continuous"
  ],
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    "continuous-state",
    "text-latent-hybrid"
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    "token-wise"
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  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "controllability",
    "interpretability"
  ],
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  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Separates an internal planning process from verbalization and studies whether the latent plan supports effective downstream reasoning.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Jiecong Wang",
    "Hao Peng",
    "Zhanyi Wang",
    "Chunyang Liu",
    "Guanlin Wu"
  ],
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