← 研踪 PaperTrailarXiv:2611.06108 · v1
Learning When to Think Aloud in Latent Reasoning
首次提交 2026-11-04 15:51
版本更新 2026-11-04 15:51
雷达观测 2026-11-05 11:10
摘要
Latent Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improves efficiency by shifting intermediate computation into continuous hidden states. However, fully latent methods often struggle on precision-critical tasks such as mathematical reasoning, while existing hybrid approaches retain substantial token-generation overhead. We introduce VITAL, an importance-guided hybrid reasoning framework that selectively verbalizes informative tokens as reasoning anchors while keeping most computation latent. A lightweight gating head dynamically selects between explicit token generation and direct hidden-state feedback. VITAL constructs hybrid trajectories from explicit CoT using token- importance estimation and trains the model through curriculum-based supervised training, followed by reinforcement learning with a reward that balances correctness and conciseness. Experiments show that VITAL consistently out- performs existing fully latent reasoning methods, achieving relative average accuracy gains of 9.6% on GPT-2 and 5.1% on Llama-3.2-1B at comparable reasoning lengths. Compared with hybrid baselines, VITAL achieves higher reasoning accuracy with substantially shorter reasoning trajectories on Qwen3-1.7B.
观测到的版本
相邻记录可能跳过中间版本；首次发现 v2 及以上也会标为版本更新。
v1 · 2026-11-04 15:51 · 最新观测版本
Learning When to Think Aloud in Latent Reasoning
Latent Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improves efficiency by shifting intermediate computation into continuous hidden states. However, fully latent methods often struggle on precision-critical tasks such as mathematical reasoning, while existing hybrid approaches retain substantial token-generation overhead. We introduce VITAL, an importance-guided hybrid reasoning framework that selectively verbalizes informative tokens as reasoning anchors while keeping most computation latent. A lightweight gating head dynamically selects between explicit token generation and direct hidden-state feedback. VITAL constructs hybrid trajectories from explicit CoT using token- importance estimation and trains the model through curriculum-based supervised training, followed by reinforcement learning with a reward that balances correctness and conciseness. Experiments show that VITAL consistently out- performs existing fully latent reasoning methods, achieving relative average accuracy gains of 9.6% on GPT-2 and 5.1% on Llama-3.2-1B at comparable reasoning lengths. Compared with hybrid baselines, VITAL achieves higher reasoning accuracy with substantially shorter reasoning trajectories on Qwen3-1.7B.
查看此版本解读 →查看此版本原文 ↗