Kangwook Lee

Bridging the Gap Between Latent and Explicit Reasoning with Looped Transformers

Ying Fan, Anej Svete, Kangwook Lee

Language models typically reason via explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), generating intermediate steps token-by-token. Latent CoT offers an alternative: it performs multi-step reasoning in the model's hidden states, replacing decoded tokens with continuous representations for greate…Read more