Preprint
Nov 2026
Learning When to Think Aloud in Latent Reasoning
VITAL is an importance-guided hybrid reasoning framework that selectively verbalizes informative tokens as reasoning anchors while keeping most computation latent, and achieves higher reasoning accuracy with substantially shorter reasoning trajectories on Qwen3-1.7B.
Zhe-Hao Zhou, Tong Su, Sheng-Yu Zhu et al.
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