Reasoning or Just Prompting? Probing the Mechanism of Latent Chemical Reasoning
Replaces, removes and perturbs latent sequences in a chemical reasoning model. Swapping sequences between molecules often preserves task scores, and a fixed prefix can match input-dependent latent sequences.
First public: · Added to this list: November 2, 2026
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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.