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[r/ML] [D] ran controlled experiments on meta's COCONUT and found the "latent reasoning" is mostly just good training. the recycled hidden states actually hurt generalization

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A new study challenges Meta's COCONUT model, which claimed superior "latent reasoning" by recycling hidden states. Researchers found that COCONUT's high performance is primarily attributable to its multistage curriculum training, not the latent reasoning mechanism. The study further indicates that the recycled hidden states actually hurt generalization, suggesting the "latent reasoning" aspect was largely a misattribution.

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