The paper advocates shifting machine reasoning to latent space
"When an LLM outputs a step-by-step plan, it creates a powerful illusion that you are watching a machine reason its way to a conclusion. A position paper by professor Subbarao Kambhampati and researchers at Arizona State University systematically dismantles this assumption." (From @bendee983 via @bdtechtalks )
👉https://bdtechtalks.substack.com/p/escaping-the-chain-of-thought-trap
Users praise efficiency gains from latent space reasoning in LLMs as an impressive breakthrough due to major token reductions and speedups.
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#867Here are the relevant papers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762 ICML 2026
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=gDE7YcRC3F TMLR J2C
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13792 ACL 2026 (Main)
"When an LLM outputs a step-by-step plan, it creates a powerful illusion that you are watching a machine reason its way to a conclusion. A position paper by professor Subbarao Kambhampati and researchers at Arizona State University systematically dismantles this assumption." (From @bendee983 via @bdtechtalks )
👉https://bdtechtalks.substack.com/p/escaping-the-chain-of-thought-trap
"When an LLM outputs a step-by-step plan, it creates a powerful illusion that you are watching a machine reason its way to a conclusion. A position paper by professor Subbarao Kambhampati and researchers at Arizona State University systematically dismantles this assumption." (From @bendee983 via @bdtechtalks )
👉https://bdtechtalks.substack.com/p/escaping-the-chain-of-thought-trap
@rao2z I.e. humans ain't operating from a flat context window where all words are hollow tokens, but instead when we write down a Chain Of Thought we Humpty Dumpty the meanings of the words (from infinite possibilities) to match the needs of our narrative.
@rao2z boss.. gift link please
@rao2z Code mode. Claudfare showed the line. 🏌
@rao2z Impressive efficiency gains from latent space reasoning! 75.6% token reduction and 2.4x speedup? That's the kind of breakthrough that makes AI sustainable at scale. #AI #Innovation #Reasoning
@rao2z The transparency problem isn't a footnote. You can't ship what you can't inspect. Latent reasoning is elegant but that's the real blocker.
@rao2z The interesting bit for me is auditability. Faster and cheaper helps, but in production I still need a decent answer on debugging and compliance.
@rao2z rationalization, not reasoning. naming it right would save a lot of hype arguments
