@article{reasoningasstatetransitionarepresentatio,
  title = {Reasoning as State Transition: A Representational Analysis of Reasoning Evolution in Large Language Models},
  author = {Siyuan Zhang and Jialian Li and Yichi Zhang and Xiao Yang and Yinpeng Dong and Hang Su},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.00770},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00770},
}