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  "title": "What Makes Effective Supervision in Latent Chain-of-Thought: An Information-Theoretic Analysis",
  "authors": "Xinghao Chen, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjin Guo, Jian Wang, Wenjie Li, Xiaoyu Shen",
  "first_public": "2026-06-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2606.20075",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20075",
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    "limitations"
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  "summary": "Uses information-theoretic analysis to study which supervision signals make latent chain-of-thought training effective.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Xinghao Chen",
    "Chak Tou Leong",
    "Wenjin Guo",
    "Jian Wang",
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    "Xiaoyu Shen"
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