Yimeng (Yoyo) Liu

LatentChem: From Textual CoT to Latent Thinking in Chemical Reasoning

Current chemical large language models (LLMs) predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to solve complex reasoning problems. However, forcing nonverbal tacit chemical logic into discrete natural language imposes a fundamental ``modality mismatch,'' creating an artificial bottleneck for r…