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  "title": "Capabilities and Fundamental Limits of Latent Chain-of-Thought",
  "authors": "Jiaxuan Zou, Yaozhong Xiong, Yong Liu",
  "first_public": "2026-02-01",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2602.01148",
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  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
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