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Is continuous CoT better suited for multi-lingual reasoning?

Ali Hamza Bashir, Behzad Shomali, Markus Frey, Mehdi Ali, Rafet Sifa, David Berghaus · Mar 9, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities. We compare Continuous Chain-of-Thought (using the CODI framework) against standard supervised fine-tuning across five typologically diverse languages: English, Chinese, German, French, and Urdu. Our experiments on GSM8k and CommonsenseQA demonstrate that continuous reasoning significantly outperforms explicit reasoning on low-resource languages, particularly in zero-shot settings where the target language was not seen during training. Additionally, this approach achieves extreme efficiency, compressing reasoning traces by approximately $29\times$ to $50\times$. These findings indicate that continuous latent representations naturally exhibit greater language invariance, offering a scalable solution for cross-lingual reasoning.

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Evidence snippet: We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.

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Evidence snippet: We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.

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Evidence snippet: We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.

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Evidence snippet: Our experiments on GSM8k and CommonsenseQA demonstrate that continuous reasoning significantly outperforms explicit reasoning on low-resource languages, particularly in zero-shot settings where the target language was not seen during training.

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Evidence snippet: We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.

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Evidence snippet: We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.

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  • Expertise required: Math, Multilingual
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Research Brief

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We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities. HFEPX protocol signal is limited in abstract-level metadata, so treat it as adjacent context. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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Key Takeaways

  • We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.
  • We compare Continuous Chain-of-Thought (using the CODI framework) against standard supervised fine-tuning across five typologically diverse languages: English, Chinese, German,…
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We investigate whether performing reasoning in a continuous latent space leads to more robust multilingual capabilities.
  • We compare Continuous Chain-of-Thought (using the CODI framework) against standard supervised fine-tuning across five typologically diverse languages: English, Chinese, German, French, and Urdu.
  • Our experiments on GSM8k and CommonsenseQA demonstrate that continuous reasoning significantly outperforms explicit reasoning on low-resource languages, particularly in zero-shot settings where the target language was not seen during…

Why It Matters For Eval

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