{
  "id": "2602.11683",
  "title": "ThinkRouter: Efficient Reasoning via Routing Thinking between Latent and Discrete Spaces",
  "authors": "Xin Xu, Tong Yu, Xiang Chen, Haoliang Wang, Julian McAuley, Saayan Mitra",
  "first_public": "2026-02-12",
  "venue": "arXiv, work in progress",
  "arxiv": "2602.11683",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11683",
  "lens": [
    "continuous",
    "learned-tokens"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "text-latent-hybrid",
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Routes intermediate computation between latent and discrete representations to trade off reasoning quality, readability, and token cost.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Xin Xu",
    "Tong Yu",
    "Xiang Chen",
    "Haoliang Wang",
    "Julian McAuley",
    "Saayan Mitra"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-02-12",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2602.11683/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2602.11683/citation.bib",
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