{
  "id": "2609.20981",
  "title": "CaLR: Causal Latent Revision for Robust Diffusion Reasoning",
  "authors": "Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan, Xuelong Li",
  "first_public": "2026-09-17",
  "lens": [
    "continuous",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "training": [
    "test-time-optimization"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Uses an expert-derived causal dependency matrix to guide gradient-based revision of diffusion reasoning states. The aim is to preserve logical dependencies while revising several intermediate positions during parallel generation.",
  "computation": [
    "diffusion",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.20981",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20981",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Wei Cai",
    "Jian Zhao",
    "Yuchen Yuan",
    "Xuelong Li"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-17",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.20981/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.20981/citation.bib",
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