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Jul 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How CoLT Accelerates Multimodal Reasoning Over 20× with a 3‑Step Latent Thought Chain

CoLT replaces the verbose textual chain‑of‑thought with just three latent vectors, delivering up to 22.6× faster generation and 10.1× end‑to‑end inference speedups while achieving a 79.1% average accuracy across eight multimodal benchmarks, all without any auxiliary visual annotations.