GradCuit: Credit-Assigned Gradient Flow Enables Robust and Interpretable Test-Time Latent Reasoning

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Inserts optimizable latent states at a chosen transformer layer and directly differentiates continuation-token log-probabilities through them at test time, improving accuracy over chain-of-thought while yielding token-level gradient attributions that show latent influence concentrating on reasoning-connector tokens.

Why it matters

22 upvotes on HuggingFace Daily Papers; reports 64.5% average accuracy across five backbones and three reasoning benchmarks, beating CoT prompting by 6.6 points.

Importance: 2/5

Concrete quantitative gains on an interpretable latent-reasoning method.

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