CoLT teaches multimodal models to think in latent steps and cuts inference 10.1x
jiqizhixin · x · 2026-07-23
Researchers from NTU and collaborators introduce CoLT, a method that makes multimodal models reason through a chain of latent thoughts instead of verbose text.
What it does
- Uses hidden representations as intermediate reasoning steps.
- Adds a lightweight decoder to supervise each latent step for stable training.
- Avoids the need for costly visual annotations used by some prior latent-reasoning approaches.
Reported gains
- Beats prior latent reasoning methods such as CODI and SIM-CoT.
- Cuts inference time by 10.1×.
- Reduces text decoding by 22.6×.
The post links the paper, code, and a report, positioning CoLT as a more efficient way for VLMs to think without generating long textual chains.
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