@article{prioritizetheprocessnotjusttheoutcomerew,
  title = {Prioritize the Process, Not Just the Outcome: Rewarding Latent Thought Trajectories Improves Reasoning in Looped Language Models},
  author = {Jonathan Williams and Esin Tureci},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.10520},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10520},
}