{
  "id": "2610.22924",
  "title": "Sep-Latent: Separator Tokens as Natural Compression Anchors for Implicit Reasoning",
  "authors": "Yinlong Xu, Jianfeng Huang, Zhengdong Zhou, Mingjie Lin, Fuyu Lv, Dan Ou, Hongxia Xu, Jian Wu",
  "first_public": "2026-10-16",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.22924",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22924",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.22924v1",
  "lens": [
    "internalized",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "distillation",
    "curriculum"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Compresses written reasoning into separator-token states by gradually reducing attention to the intervening text. Distills those states into a continuous reasoning path that learns when to stop and generate an answer.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Yinlong Xu",
    "Jianfeng Huang",
    "Zhengdong Zhou",
    "Mingjie Lin",
    "Fuyu Lv",
    "Dan Ou",
    "Hongxia Xu",
    "Jian Wu"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.22924/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2610-22924",
  "citation_date": "2026-10-16",
  "json_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.22924/record.json",
  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.22924/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.22924/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.22924/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.22924"
}