{
  "id": "2606.12689",
  "title": "Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models",
  "authors": "Darpan Aswal, Thomas Palmeira Ferraz, Yongxin Zhou, Maxime Peyrard",
  "first_public": "2026-06-10",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2606.12689",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12689",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing",
    "boundary"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Compares Coconut and CODI with controls lacking their proposed reasoning recurrence or curriculum. Finds that decodable patterns can also appear in controls, while interventions reveal varying causal use of latent states concentrated in low-dimensional directions.",
  "provenance": "Awesome-Latent-CoT; primary sources checked 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Darpan Aswal",
    "Thomas Palmeira Ferraz",
    "Yongxin Zhou",
    "Maxime Peyrard"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-06-10",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2606.12689/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2606.12689/citation.bib",
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