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SYNLAT: Syntax-Aligned Text-Latent Compression for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Long chain-of-thought (CoT) traces impose substantial output-token costs. Under constrained budgets, compression must preserve answer-critical information, making boundary placement central. Token-level and fixed-length boundaries can fragment coherent spans such as phrases, formulas, and local derivations, whereas ste …