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  "id": "2611.01926",
  "title": "TAC-CoT: Tool-Empowered Implicit Chain-of-Thought via Interleaving Explicit Tokens",
  "authors": "Juseon Do, Sangmin Bae, Jeesu Jung, Hwanjun Song",
  "first_public": "2026-11-01",
  "added_at": "2026-11-03",
  "venue": "EMNLP 2026",
  "arxiv": "2611.01926",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01926",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2611.01926v1",
  "lens": [
    "internalized",
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state",
    "text-latent-hybrid"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise"
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  "training": [
    "self-distillation",
    "supervised"
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  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Interleaves continuous hidden-state reasoning with written tool calls and observations. Learns from explicit tool-use traces through reconstruction and self-distillation, and chooses when to call a tool or answer after each reasoning block.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-03",
  "author_names": [
    "Juseon Do",
    "Sangmin Bae",
    "Jeesu Jung",
    "Hwanjun Song"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-11-01",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.01926/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.01926/citation.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.01926",
  "publication": {
    "title": "TAC-CoT: Tool-Empowered Implicit Chain-of-Thought via Interleaving Explicit Tokens",
    "author_names": [
      "Juseon Do",
      "Sangmin Bae",
      "Jeesu Jung",
      "Hwanjun Song"
    ],
    "year": 2026,
    "type": "paper-conference",
    "container_title": "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    "pages": "32803-32822",
    "publisher": "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1436/",
    "source_url": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1436/",
    "verified_at": "2026-11-03",
    "doi": "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1436"
  },
  "publication_bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.01926/publication.bib",
  "publication_csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.01926/publication.csl.json"
}