View: Transformers May Not Gain Much by Reasoning in Latent Space
xuanalogue · x · 2026-09-02
The author shares an intuition that transformers don't actually gain much by reasoning in latent space compared to being forced through the discrete bottleneck of emitting or committing to a token, suggesting the latter may even be beneficial.
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