#latent reasoning

topiclatent reasoning

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cs.IR2026

Hierarchical Latent Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation

Peiyu Hu, Siying Gu, Weihai Lu +8

The paper introduces HiLaR, a framework that uses hierarchical latent reasoning and layer-aware reinforcement optimization to improve recommendation performance of large language m…

cs.IR2026

WhisperRec: Latent Reasoning for Efficient Foundation Recommendation Models

Hao Jiang, Peiru Du, Pengfei Yao +10

The paper presents WhisperRec, a framework that compresses teacher-generated chain‑of‑thought explanations into learnable latent tokens, allowing recommendation models to reason in…

cs.AI2026

Penelope: Localized Latent Recurrence for Efficient Structured Reasoning

Yutong Chen, Shouqian Shi, Xinran Liu +5

Penelope introduces a method that adds a localized recurrent computation within a decoder-only Transformer to perform structured reasoning efficiently, using a latent space instead…

cs.CL2026

T^2MLR: Transformer with Temporal Middle-Layer Recurrence

Ziyang Cai, Xingyu Zhu, Yihe Dong +2

The paper proposes T²MLR, a transformer variant that injects a cached middle‑layer representation from the previous token into an earlier layer of the current token, allowing inter…

cs.CV2026

LaME: Learning to Think in Latent Space for Multimodal Embedding via Information Bottleneck

Peixi Wu, Biao Yang, Feipeng Ma +7

The paper introduces LaME, a multimodal embedding model that performs reasoning in a compact latent space using learnable tokens and an information‑bottleneck objective, eliminatin…

cs.IR2026

RecRec: Latent Interests Recursive Reasoning for Sequential Recommendation

Wenhao Deng, Junchen Fu, Hanwen Du +6

The paper introduces RecRec, a framework that separates reasoning from prediction in sequential recommendation by compressing user histories into multiple latent interests and recu…