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Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

As of 4 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 32 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.15778.

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The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey cites this paper.

The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 205

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LaRe: Latent Refocusing for Multimodal Reasoning cites this paper.

LaRe: Latent Refocusing for Multimodal Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 13

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Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems cites this paper.

Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 55

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Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems cites this paper.

Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 55

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Reasoning Within the Mind: Dynamic Multimodal Interleaving in Latent Space cites this paper.

Reasoning Within the Mind: Dynamic Multimodal Interleaving in Latent Space Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 37

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Towards Explainable Industrial Anomaly Detection via Knowledge-Guided Latent Reasoning cites this paper.

Towards Explainable Industrial Anomaly Detection via Knowledge-Guided Latent Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 23

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The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems cites this paper.

The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 97

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MetaState: Persistent Working Memory Enhances Reasoning in Discrete Diffusion Language Models cites this paper.

MetaState: Persistent Working Memory Enhances Reasoning in Discrete Diffusion Language Models Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 25

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EndoCoT: Scaling Endogenous Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Models cites this paper.

EndoCoT: Scaling Endogenous Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Models Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 41

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TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning cites this paper.

TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 14

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LightThinker++: From Reasoning Compression to Memory Management cites this paper.

LightThinker++: From Reasoning Compression to Memory Management Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 79

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SeLaR: Selective Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models cites this paper.

SeLaR: Selective Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 57

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LEPO: Latent Reasoning Policy Optimization for Large Language Models cites this paper.

LEPO: Latent Reasoning Policy Optimization for Large Language Models Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

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Thinking Without Words: Efficient Latent Reasoning with Abstract Chain-of-Thought cites this paper.

Thinking Without Words: Efficient Latent Reasoning with Abstract Chain-of-Thought Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 47

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UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs cites this paper.

UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 17

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Latent Action Control for Reasoning-Guided Unified Image Generation cites this paper.

Latent Action Control for Reasoning-Guided Unified Image Generation Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 48

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PluRule: A Benchmark for Moderating Pluralistic Communities on Social Media cites this paper.

PluRule: A Benchmark for Moderating Pluralistic Communities on Social Media Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 54

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Generative Recursive Reasoning cites this paper.

Generative Recursive Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 20

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Generative Recursive Reasoning cites this paper.

Generative Recursive Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 20

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Thinking Economically: A Hierarchical Framework for Adaptive-Complexity Reasoning in LLMs cites this paper.

Thinking Economically: A Hierarchical Framework for Adaptive-Complexity Reasoning in LLMs Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 51

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Geometric Latent Reasoning Induces Shorter Generations in LLMs cites this paper.

Geometric Latent Reasoning Induces Shorter Generations in LLMs Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

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Dropout-GRPO: Variational Stochasticity for Continuous Latent Reasoning cites this paper.

Dropout-GRPO: Variational Stochasticity for Continuous Latent Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 37

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N-GRPO: Embedding-Level Neighbor Mixing for Enhanced Policy Optimization cites this paper.

N-GRPO: Embedding-Level Neighbor Mixing for Enhanced Policy Optimization Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

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Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models cites this paper.

Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 29

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Demystifying Hidden-State Recurrence: Switchable Latent Reasoning with On-Policy Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

Demystifying Hidden-State Recurrence: Switchable Latent Reasoning with On-Policy Reinforcement Learning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 66

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Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch Routing cites this paper.

Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch Routing Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

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Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch Routing cites this paper.

Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch Routing Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 33

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Latent-CURE for Breast Cancer Diagnosis cites this paper.

Latent-CURE for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 28

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DiscoLoop: Looping Discrete Embeddings and Continuous Hidden States for Multi-hop Reasoning cites this paper.

DiscoLoop: Looping Discrete Embeddings and Continuous Hidden States for Multi-hop Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

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DiscoLoop: Looping Discrete Embeddings and Continuous Hidden States for Multi-hop Reasoning cites this paper.

DiscoLoop: Looping Discrete Embeddings and Continuous Hidden States for Multi-hop Reasoning Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 26

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SLPO: Scaling Latent Reasoning via a Surrogate Policy cites this paper.

SLPO: Scaling Latent Reasoning via a Surrogate Policy Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 25

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Efficient Chain-of-Modality Reasoning via Progressive Compression for Spoken Language Models cites this paper.

Efficient Chain-of-Modality Reasoning via Progressive Compression for Spoken Language Models Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Reference 74

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