Latent reasoning without verbalized thoughts forfeits chain-of-thought's safety benefits.
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Such latent reasoning models might not need to verbalize any of their thoughts and would thus lose the safety advantages that CoT confers.
Refers to architectures that increase serial reasoning depth in a continuous latent space (Hao et al., 2024; Geiping et al., 2025).
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