arxivcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-18
Training Continuous Chain of Thought Models: A Tale of Two Regimes
Varun Yerram, He He, Eunsol Choi
Continuous Chain-of-Thought methods replace verbose reasoning traces with a short sequence of dense latent representations. Earlier continuous CoT methods indirectly supervise the latent representations such that its final state match that of verbose reasoning traces, requiring a…