{
  "id": "2604.24881",
  "title": "Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate",
  "authors": "John Seon Keun Yi, Aaron Mueller, Dokyun Lee",
  "first_public": "2026-04-27",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2604.24881",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881",
  "code_url": "https://github.com/johnsk95/latent_agents",
  "lens": [
    "internalized"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "reinforcement-learning",
    "distillation"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "interpretability",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Post-trains a single model to internalize the computation of a multi-agent debate rather than emitting the debate as text.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "John Seon Keun Yi",
    "Aaron Mueller",
    "Dokyun Lee"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-04-27",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2604.24881/index.md",
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