@inproceedings{aswal-etal-2026-observable, title = "Observable Patterns Are Not Explanations: A Causal-Geometric Analysis of Latent Reasoning Models", author = "Aswal, Darpan and Ferraz, Thomas Palmeira and Zhou, Yongxin and Peyrard, Maxime", 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.83/", pages = "1898--1938", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }