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  "title": "LoopFormer: Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning via Shortcut Modulation",
  "authors": "Ahmadreza Jeddi, Marco Ciccone, Babak Taati",
  "first_public": "2026-02-11",
  "added_at": "2026-11-03",
  "venue": "ICLR 2026",
  "arxiv": "2602.11451",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11451",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2602.11451v1",
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  "questions": [
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    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
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  "modality": [
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  "summary": "Trains a shared transformer stack on long and short computation paths, conditioning each pass on its location and step size. A consistency loss aligns shorter paths with the longest path so one model can run under different depth budgets.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-03",
  "author_names": [
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  "citation_date": "2026-02-11",
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  "publication": {
    "title": "LoopFormer: Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning via Shortcut Modulation",
    "author_names": [
      "Ahmadreza Jeddi",
      "Marco Ciccone",
      "Babak Taati"
    ],
    "year": 2026,
    "type": "paper-conference",
    "container_title": "International Conference on Learning Representations",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11451",
    "source_url": "https://iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/10009450",
    "verified_at": "2026-11-03"
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