Structural Process Supervision for Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
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arXiv:2609.09928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent reasoning approaches enhance token-level efficiency and robustness by replacing verbose, explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) tokens with compact continuous-space embeddings. However, existing methods lack direct process supervision over these latent embeddings, which often leads to representation collapse and uneven information distribution. To address this, we propose Prototype-Mediated Process Supervision (PMPS), which introduces learnable reasoning prototypes as semantic anchors to provide structural process-level supervision for latent rea
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.09928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent reasoning approaches enhance token-level efficiency and robustness by replacing verbose, explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) tokens with compact continuous-space embeddings.
- However, existing methods lack direct process supervision over these latent embeddings, which often leads to representation collapse and uneven information distribution.
- To address this, we propose Prototype-Mediated Process Supervision (PMPS), which introduces learnable reasoning prototypes as semantic anchors to provide structural process-level supervision for latent rea
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