{
  "id": "2610.09876",
  "title": "Think Before You Paint: Recursive Latent Reasoning for Diffusion Models",
  "authors": "Paweł Skierś, Małgorzata Grzanka, Wojciech Masarczyk, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Kamil Deja",
  "first_public": "2026-10-07",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.09876",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09876",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "continuous",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "multimodal-latent",
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "diffusion"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "capability",
    "generalization"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "vision",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "PaTh uses a small recursive network to refine learned image-state tokens inside each denoising step and steer a frozen diffusion model through adapters. It learns visual puzzles from reconstruction targets without symbolic solutions or an external verifier.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Paweł Skierś",
    "Małgorzata Grzanka",
    "Wojciech Masarczyk",
    "Jan-Willem van de Meent",
    "Kamil Deja"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-07",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.09876/index.md",
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