Selective Latent Thinking: Adaptive Compression of LLM Reasoning Chains

arXiv:2605.25745 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-25

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Latent Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Selective Latent Thinking — 2× in this paper
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Latent Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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