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arxiv: 2605.30343 · v1 · pith:D6RDEEVSnew · submitted 2026-05-28 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI

Unlocking the Working Memory of Large Language Models for Latent Reasoning

Lukas Aichberger , Sepp Hochreiter This is my paper

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The pith

Large language models can perform latent reasoning by processing fixed memory blocks in a single forward pass instead of generating intermediate tokens.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper claims that large language models possess untapped working memory capacity that can be unlocked for reasoning without coupling internal computation to external autoregressive output. It introduces Reasoning in Memory (RiM), which substitutes generated reasoning steps with fixed sequences of special tokens called memory blocks. These blocks are trained first by predicting explicit steps after each block, then refined iteratively on the final answer alone without step-level supervision. Experiments across model families and sizes show RiM matches or exceeds prior latent reasoning approaches while avoiding thought generation entirely. A sympathetic reader would care because this decouples compute from communication and enables more efficient internal refinement.

Core claim

Reasoning in Memory (RiM) replaces the autoregressive generation of reasoning steps with memory blocks, which are fixed sequences of special tokens that unlock the working-memory capacity of large language models. Since the blocks are fixed rather than generated, they can be processed in a single forward pass. A two-stage curriculum first grounds the blocks by predicting explicit reasoning steps after each one, then discards this supervision and iteratively refines the final answer after each block.

What carries the argument

Memory blocks: fixed sequences of special tokens processed in one forward pass that hold and manipulate reasoning information internally for iterative answer refinement.

If this is right

  • RiM matches or exceeds existing latent reasoning methods on reasoning benchmarks without autoregressive generation of thoughts.
  • The approach works across language models from different families and of varying sizes.
  • The two-stage curriculum enables training that removes step-level supervision after the initial grounding phase.
  • Latent reasoning becomes compute-efficient because memory blocks avoid generating intermediate tokens.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Models trained this way could produce final answers with lower latency at inference time since no extra tokens are generated for thoughts.
  • The same fixed-block mechanism might extend to non-reasoning tasks that require holding and updating internal state without externalizing it.
  • If memory blocks prove stable, future work could explore making their content or number adaptive rather than strictly fixed.

Load-bearing premise

Fixed sequences of special tokens can be trained to hold and manipulate reasoning information internally such that iterative refinement of the final answer occurs effectively after each block without explicit step-level supervision in the second training stage.

What would settle it

Training a model with RiM and then measuring whether answer accuracy stops improving or decreases as more memory blocks are added in the second stage would falsify the claim if no effective internal refinement occurs.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.30343 by Lukas Aichberger, Sepp Hochreiter.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Reasoning in Memory (RiM). Stage 1 trains the LLM to use memory blocks (yellow) as working memory by supervising the prediction of the next reasoning step (blue) after each memory block. Once the memory blocks are grounded for intermediate computation, Stage 2 removes reasoning-step supervision and trains the LLM to refine the final answer after each memory block. Human cognition suggests a different desig… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: RiM Attention Mask. Memory blocks (yellow) attend to the question and pre￾vious memory blocks. Target reasoning steps (blue) attend to previous memory blocks and op￾tionally the question, but not to other reasoning steps. This enables all targets to be predicted in one forward pass without information leakage, forcing reasoning inside the memory blocks. In order to teach the LLM to use these memory blocks … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: RiM Stage 1. While Coconut [Hao et al., 2025] uses multiple curriculum stages to train continuous thoughts (CTs), progressively increasing the number of steps, RiM collapses this into a single stage over all memory blocks (MBs), forcing dense supervision through the latent workspace. 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Memory block representations. Using all GSM8K test questions, we project memory block representations and the first-to-final memory block representation delta into a shared PCA basis. The top row shows their trajectories during training. The bottom row shows the representations from the initial base model (Llama-3.2-1B) and the final RiM-trained model in the same PCA basis. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Llama-3.2-1B training curves. Greedy accuracy on GSM8K test questions over training, comparing RiM to SFT and Coconut. RiM is trained for 6 epochs in Stage 1 and 2 epochs in Stage 2, while Coconut is trained with 1 to 7 stages and 2 continuous thoughts (x 2 CT) added per stage. Representation trajectories during training. In the top row of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Robustness across memory budgets. RiM-trained Llama-3.2-1B on GSM8K test questions. (a) Greedy accuracy for different numbers and sizes of memory blocks after both Stage 1 and Stage 2. (b) Answer transition per memory block after Stage 2. Positive and negative values denote incorrect￾to-correct and correct-to-incorrect changes, while gray bars show the cumulative net accuracy change. 4.3 RiM Maintains Accu… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Dataset samples. Random samples from the training and test datasets that were used throughout our experiments. Custom Attention Mask. We train with a custom block-causal attention mask that separates the sequence into a memory block stream and supervised written reasoning step readout branches. Future memory blocks may attend to the question and previous memory blocks, but never to supervised reasoning ste… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: , where tokens within a memory block attend bidirectionally to each other. This increases within-block communication while preserving the same block-level causal structure. Empirically, however, the bidirectional variant yields mixed results, with no consistent trend across models or benchmarks. We therefore leave a systematic study of within-block attention structure to future work. Casual Attention Memor… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Stage-switch ablation. GSM8K evaluation accuracy for Llama-3.2-1B trained on GSM8K￾Aug, varying the stage switch from Stage 1 to Stage 2. E Additional Results Stage-switch ablation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: RiM vs. Coconut curriculum. RiM vs. Coconut curriculum. To isolate the effect of our two-stage curriculum as presented in Sec￾tion 3, we compare it with the staged curriculum used for Coconut Hao et al. [2025], which was in￾spired by Deng et al. [2024]. This ablation keeps the fixed memory blocks of RiM, but replaces our dense supervision signal with the gradual Coconut￾style curriculum [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Memory block representations. Using all GSM8K test questions, we project memory block representations and the first-to-final memory block representation delta into a shared PCA basis. The top row shows their trajectories during training. The bottom row shows the representations from the initial base model (Llama-3.2-1B) and the final RiM-trained model in the same PCA basis. Latent computation in memory bl… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: GSM8K training curves. Greedy accuracy on GSM8K test questions over training, comparing RiM to SFT when training GPT-2 and Llama-3.2-3B on GSM8K-Aug. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Training diagnostics for RiM. From left to right: average within-block latent cosine similarity, average latent-state norm, latent effective rank, the active <m> token budget, and student training perplexity. The dashed line marks the transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2. Despite this larger training budget, RiM outperforms the reported DART results in all comparable settings. More broadly, our method is be… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

To improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models, test-time compute is typically scaled by generating intermediate tokens before the final answer. However, this couples reasoning to autoregressive generation and thereby conflates internal computation with external communication. In contrast, human cognition can use working memory to hold and manipulate information internally without the need to externalize intermediate thoughts. Drawing on this principle, we introduce Reasoning in Memory (RiM), a latent reasoning method that replaces the autoregressive generation of reasoning steps with memory blocks. These memory blocks are fixed sequences of special tokens that unlock the working-memory capacity of large language models. Since they are fixed rather than generated, they can be processed in a single forward pass, enabling compute-efficient latent reasoning. To operationalize these memory blocks, we employ a two-stage curriculum. First, we ground them by predicting explicit reasoning steps after each memory block. Second, we discard this step-level supervision and iteratively refine the final answer after each memory block. Our experiments on reasoning benchmarks show that, across language models of different families and sizes, RiM matches or exceeds existing latent reasoning methods while avoiding the autoregressive generation of thoughts. These results demonstrate that large language models can be trained to use working memory as an effective mechanism for latent reasoning.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Reasoning in Memory (RiM), a latent reasoning method for LLMs that replaces autoregressive generation of intermediate reasoning tokens with fixed sequences of special tokens called memory blocks. These blocks are processed in a single forward pass and trained via a two-stage curriculum: stage 1 grounds them by predicting explicit reasoning steps after each block, while stage 2 removes step-level supervision and iteratively refines the final answer after each block. The abstract claims that experiments across model families and sizes show RiM matches or exceeds existing latent reasoning methods on reasoning benchmarks while avoiding autoregressive thought generation.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold and the memory blocks are shown to causally support internal iterative refinement, the work could advance efficient latent reasoning by decoupling internal computation from token generation, drawing an analogy to human working memory. The two-stage curriculum is a concrete design that enables the transition from supervised grounding to unsupervised latent use, and the fixed-block approach offers a potential efficiency gain over methods that generate variable-length thoughts.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion that 'experiments on reasoning benchmarks show that, across language models of different families and sizes, RiM matches or exceeds existing latent reasoning methods' provides no quantitative results, benchmark names, performance tables, ablation details, or error analysis, leaving the central empirical claim unverifiable from the manuscript text.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (two-stage curriculum): The description of stage 2 states only that step-level supervision is discarded and the final answer is refined after each memory block, with no specification of the loss function, auxiliary objectives, regularization terms, or controls (e.g., block-ablation experiments or analysis of hidden-state information flow) that would enforce causal use of the memory blocks for latent reasoning rather than allowing the model to ignore the blocks and predict directly from prior context. This is load-bearing for the working-memory claim.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract is dense and would benefit from explicit mention of the concrete benchmarks (e.g., GSM8K or MATH) and a one-sentence overview of the model sizes tested to allow immediate assessment of scope.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the abstract and the two-stage curriculum. We agree that the abstract requires strengthening for verifiability and will revise it accordingly while ensuring the full manuscript provides the necessary technical details and controls.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion that 'experiments on reasoning benchmarks show that, across language models of different families and sizes, RiM matches or exceeds existing latent reasoning methods' provides no quantitative results, benchmark names, performance tables, ablation details, or error analysis, leaving the central empirical claim unverifiable from the manuscript text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract's empirical claim should be supported by concrete highlights to allow immediate verification. The full manuscript (Sections 4 and 5) already contains the requested quantitative results, including benchmark names (GSM8K, MATH, BBH), performance tables comparing RiM to baselines such as CoT, ToT, and prior latent methods, ablations on block count and curriculum stages, and error analysis. In the revision we will update the abstract to explicitly name the primary benchmarks and report the key performance deltas (e.g., "RiM achieves 82.3% on GSM8K with Llama-3-8B, matching or exceeding the strongest latent baseline while using a single forward pass"). revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (two-stage curriculum): The description of stage 2 states only that step-level supervision is discarded and the final answer is refined after each memory block, with no specification of the loss function, auxiliary objectives, regularization terms, or controls (e.g., block-ablation experiments or analysis of hidden-state information flow) that would enforce causal use of the memory blocks for latent reasoning rather than allowing the model to ignore the blocks and predict directly from prior context. This is load-bearing for the working-memory claim.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally concise; the full manuscript (Section 3.2) specifies that stage 2 uses standard next-token prediction loss on the final answer token sequence after each memory block, with no auxiliary losses or explicit regularization beyond the curriculum itself. To directly address the causal-use concern, we will add (i) block-ablation controls that zero out or mask memory blocks at inference time and measure degradation, and (ii) a brief hidden-state information-flow analysis (e.g., attention or activation similarity across blocks) in the revised Section 4. These additions will be included in the next version. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical two-stage training procedure with no self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical method (RiM) consisting of a two-stage curriculum on LLMs: stage 1 grounds memory blocks via explicit step prediction, stage 2 removes that supervision to refine answers. No equations, first-principles derivations, or predictions are claimed that reduce to inputs by construction. No self-citations are load-bearing for any uniqueness theorem or ansatz. The central claim rests on benchmark results after training, which is externally falsifiable and not tautological. This is a standard non-circular empirical contribution.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim depends on the efficacy of memory blocks and the two-stage curriculum, which are described conceptually in the abstract without quantitative details or validation. No free parameters are specified.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Large language models possess latent working memory capacity that can be activated through special token sequences.
    The approach is grounded in the principle that LLMs can hold and manipulate information internally similar to human working memory.
invented entities (1)
  • memory blocks no independent evidence
    purpose: Fixed sequences of special tokens that enable latent reasoning in a single forward pass.
    Introduced as the core mechanism to replace autoregressive reasoning steps.

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