{
  "id": "2610.17679",
  "title": "Dynamic K-Head: Difficulty-Supervised Budget Selection for Continuous Latent Reasoning",
  "authors": "Ying Li, Yuqi Chen, Sixuan Li, Yunfeng Cai",
  "first_public": "2026-10-13",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.17679",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17679",
  "lens": [
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability",
    "evaluation"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "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.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Ying Li",
    "Yuqi Chen",
    "Sixuan Li",
    "Yunfeng Cai"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-13",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.17679/index.md",
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