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PonderLM-3: Adaptive Token-Wise Pondering with Differentiable Masking

He Li, Feichen Song, Boyi Zeng, Shixiang Song, Zhiqin John Xu, Ziwei He, Zhouhan Lin

Uses differentiable masks to allocate a variable number of recurrent pondering steps to different token positions.

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arXiv:2603.02023 · Initial submission: 2026-03-02

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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.

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