{
  "id": "2609.01117",
  "title": "Latent Recurrent Thoughts: Recurrent Refinement of Proposed Latents for Reasoning with Frozen LLMs",
  "authors": "Zhaoliang Chen, Jie Fu",
  "first_public": "2026-09-01",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.01117",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01117",
  "lens": [
    "continuous",
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent"
  ],
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    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
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    "capability",
    "efficiency"
  ],
  "evidence": [
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  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Uses a task-specific proposer and small recurrent auxiliary network to iteratively refine continuous thoughts that a frozen language model then decodes.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-05",
  "author_names": [
    "Zhaoliang Chen",
    "Jie Fu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-01",
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