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Dynamic K-Head: Difficulty-Supervised Budget Selection for Continuous Latent Reasoning

Ying Li, Yuqi Chen, Sixuan Li, Yunfeng Cai

Predicts from the question how many continuous reasoning updates to perform. Evaluates total cost including latent updates, special tokens, and any written continuation rather than counting latent steps alone.

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arXiv:2610.17679 · Initial submission: 2026-10-13

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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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