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New PLRM framework enables parallelizable probabilistic latent reasoning

Researchers have introduced Probabilistic Latent Reasoning Models (PLRM), a novel variational framework designed to enhance the efficiency and diversity of reasoning trajectories in language models. Unlike deterministic latent models, PLRM can capture and model a distribution over multiple valid reasoning paths. The framework utilizes a JEPA-style objective for parallelizable posterior inference and incorporates a discrete strategy variable with a mixture-based prior to preserve distinct reasoning processes. PLRM demonstrates competitive performance on single-trajectory datasets and surpasses existing stochastic baselines on multi-trajectory tasks, all while enabling more efficient training. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Seokhyun Lee, Seongjun Lee, Changhee Lee ·

    Parallelizable Probabilistic Latent Reasoning for Diverse Reasoning Trajectories

    arXiv:2610.29385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models relying on verbalized Chain-of-Thought (CoT) are constrained to token-by-token generation in the language space, where many tokens serve textual coherence rather than core reasoning. This entangles genuine difference…