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  "title": "Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers",
  "authors": "Nikunj Saunshi, Nishanth Dikkala, Zhiyuan Li, Sanjiv Kumar, Sashank J. Reddi",
  "first_public": "2025-02-24",
  "venue": "ICLR 2025",
  "arxiv": "2502.17416",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17416",
  "lens": [
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  "questions": [
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    "capability"
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  "summary": "Analyzes the expressive power of transformers that repeatedly apply shared layers, treating recurrent depth as a form of internal reasoning.",
  "provenance": "Awesome-Latent-CoT",
  "author_names": [
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    "Nishanth Dikkala",
    "Zhiyuan Li",
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    "Sashank J. Reddi"
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