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ThinkRouter: Efficient Reasoning via Routing Thinking between Latent and Discrete Spaces

Xin Xu, Tong Yu, Xiang Chen, Haoliang Wang, Julian McAuley, Saayan Mitra

Routes intermediate computation between latent and discrete representations to trade off reasoning quality, readability, and token cost.

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arXiv:2602.11683 · Initial submission: 2026-02-12

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Continuous-state reasoning — Use vectors—lists of numbers—to carry intermediate reasoning from one step to the next, instead of selecting a text token at every step. Some methods use the model's hidden states; others combine several candidate token representations.

Thinking tokens — Give a model extra tokens for computation, such as pauses, filler symbols, or learned planning tokens. These tokens need not spell out the solution.

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