Intuition: Latent Space Reasoning May Not Outperform Discrete Token Bottlenecks
xuanalogue · x · 2026-09-02
Shares the intuition that Transformers don't necessarily gain significant benefits from reasoning in latent space compared to being forced through the discrete bottleneck of emitting a token, suggesting the latter might even be beneficial.
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