# PonderNet: Learning to Ponder

Authors: Andrea Banino, Jan Balaguer, Charles Blundell.

Learns a probabilistic halting policy for adaptive internal computation.

First public: 2021-07-12.
ArXiv initial submission: 2021-07-12.

[Original paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05407) · [Reading-list entry](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2107.05407/)
[Preprint BibTeX](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2107.05407/citation.bib) · [Preprint CSL-JSON](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2107.05407/citation.csl.json) · [JSON record](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2107.05407/record.json)

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