{
  "id": "2610.28498",
  "title": "Present but Hard to Read: Probing Latent Reasoning with Minimal Pairs",
  "authors": "Aur Shalev Merin",
  "first_public": "2026-10-20",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.28498",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28498",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.28498v2",
  "code_url": "https://github.com/Aur-Shalev-Merin/present-but-hard-to-read",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise",
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Uses controlled prompt changes and interventions to separate information present in hidden states from what a probe can read and what a model actually uses. Tests copied digits and unwritten arithmetic intermediates in a looped model and a standard transformer.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Aur Shalev Merin"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.28498/",
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-20",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.28498/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.28498/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.28498/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.28498"
}