Latent & Implicit Thinking Workshop

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🏆 LIT Workshop @ ICLR 2026 — Community Choice Award!
Vote for your favorite paper from our Best Paper finalists 👇
Details on each paper in the thread 🧵

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4️⃣ When does CoT Help? (https://t.co/LQSoJxHzln) @YijunDong1
Models chain-of-thought as a Markov chain and identifies "transition alignment" as the key factor determining when CoT actually helps. Theory + synthetic benchmarks to validate predictions.

[Latent & Implicit Thinking Workshop @LIT_workshop]

🏆 LIT Workshop @ ICLR 2026 — Community Choice Award!
Vote for your favorite paper from our Best Paper finalists 👇
Details on each paper in the thread 🧵

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3️⃣ Think-at-Hard (https://t.co/SK3dpo8Bx6)
Tackles latent overthinking in looped transformers — a neural decider triggers extra iterations only on hard tokens. Skips 93% of tokens while outperforming always-iterate baselines by 3.8–4.4%.

[Latent & Implicit Thinking Workshop @LIT_workshop]

Organizing Team:
@XinyiWang98 @NSaunshi @RidgerZhu @Yang_Liuu @yuntiandeng @NishanthDikkala @liujiaheng2 @zhiyuanli_ Wenhao Huang, Sashank J. Reddi, @LiChongxuan Sanjiv Kumar

Speakers:
@BeidiChen Samy Bengio @ikekong @tomgoldsteincs @XiangLisaLi2 @tydsh

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📢 Call for Papers & Reviewers | Latent & Implicit Thinking (LIT) @ ICLR 2026 🧠
We’re excited to announce the Latent & Implicit Thinking (LIT) Workshop @iclr_conf 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
This workshop goes beyond Chain-of-Thought, exploring hidden, efficient, and non-autoregressive reasoning in neural models.
📄 We invite submissions on topics including:
• Implicit reasoning training strategies
• Looped architectures & special thinking tokens
• KV-cache & hybrid stateful reasoning
• Inference beyond autoregression
• Theory, benchmarks, interpretability, safety & limitations
🗓️ Important dates:
• Submission deadline: Feb 5, 2026
• Reviewing period: Feb 6–26, 2026
• Acceptance notification: Mar 1, 2026
• Camera-ready: Mar 10, 2026
• Workshop: Apr 26–27, 2026 @ #ICLR2026
🙌 Reviewer sign-up: https://t.co/rCw6FEStod
📤 Paper submission: https://t.co/MD6SJMVmty
🔗 Website: https://t.co/My8gZ8nWIx
Join us to shape new paradigms of reasoning in AI 🚀
#ICLR2026 #reasoning