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Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks

Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

Uses one small network to repeatedly update a reasoning state and a proposed answer. Trains these updates with deep supervision and a learned halting score, evaluating the approach on Sudoku, mazes, and ARC-AGI puzzles.

First public: · Added to this list: November 9, 2026

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arXiv:2510.04871 · Initial submission: 2025-10-06

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Recurrent reasoning — Repeat parts of the model or keep intermediate information in memory while working through a problem. Some methods also learn how many passes to run.