Thought Communication paper lets agents exchange latent thoughts instead of tokens
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-05
A new arXiv paper (2510.20733) by Yujia Zheng, Kun Zhang et al. introduces "thought communication," a paradigm where agents bypass natural language and exchange latent thoughts directly. The authors argue that hidden states, activations and KV caches are just observations, not true latents; they formalize latent thoughts via a general latent variable model and prove identifiability of shared/private thoughts between agent pairs. The team claims improved reasoning and collaboration, and hints at an ARC-AGI competition setup where a frontier model's hidden states pass into a small local model without text in between.
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