{
  "id": "2609.21662",
  "title": "When Steering Fails in Latent Reasoning: A Latent-to-Language Transition Gap",
  "authors": "Gaoxiang Huang, Lei Qi",
  "first_public": "2026-09-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.21662",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21662",
  "summary": "Tests whether changing continuous reasoning states changes the model's later text output. Finds weaker steering effects than in explicit chain-of-thought, despite comparable changes to the hidden representations.",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state",
    "text-latent-hybrid"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "controllability",
    "interpretability",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "probing",
    "boundary"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Gaoxiang Huang",
    "Lei Qi"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.21662/",
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-18",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.21662/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.21662/citation.bib",
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