@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-latent, title = "Do Latent Tokens Think? A Causal and Adversarial Analysis of Chain-of-Continuous-Thought", author = "Zhang, Yuyi and Tang, Boyu and Ju, Tianjie and Duan, Sufeng and Liu, Gongshen", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.186/", pages = "4268--4281", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }