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Think in Latent, Explain in Language: Self-Explainable Latent Reasoning

Dayuan Zhao, Shengcao Cao, Yu-Xiong Wang, Liang-Yan Gui

Jointly trains latent states for answer prediction and for decoding back into readable reasoning, using one model rather than a separate post-hoc explanation decoder.

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arXiv:2608.13570 · Initial submission: 2026-07-01

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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.

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