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Despite its remarkable empirical success as a highly competitive branch of artificial intelligence, deep learning is often blamed for its widely known low interpretation and lack of firm and rigorous mathematical foundation. However, most…

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Latent visual reasoning involves visual evidence more directly in multimodal reasoning by inserting continuous latent tokens before textual generation. However, the necessity of these latent tokens at inference remains ambiguous. We show…