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EMNLP 2026: TAC-CoT Gains 8.8pp Accuracy With 6.8x Fewer Model Forward Passes on Tool Agents

By Alexis Dufresne Published November 5, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Summary

TAC-CoT solves a real production problem: fully explicit CoT is accurate but slow; fully implicit CoT is fast but lossy. Keeping tool calls and answers as explicit text while making reasoning latent achieves both, and the 6.8x forward-pass reduction at +8.8pp accuracy is commercially meaningful for agentic deployments at scale.

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Original headline: EMNLP 2026: TAC-CoT Gains 8.8pp Accuracy With 6.8x Fewer Model Forward Passes on Tool Agents