Morning Edition · Monday, July 13, 2026Published at 1:34 AM EDT · New York
HALO Adds Adaptive Latent Reasoning on Top of Frozen Language Models
The method spends a small, input-dependent amount of extra compute refining a backbone's hidden states rather than fixing the number of refinement steps.
A new preprint, HALO: Hybrid Adaptive Latent Reasoning, studies how to improve a frozen pretrained language model with a small amount of extra computation applied at inference. The straightforward approach adds a fixed number of refinement…
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