{
  "id": "2603.02023",
  "title": "PonderLM-3: Adaptive Token-Wise Pondering with Differentiable Masking",
  "authors": "He Li, Feichen Song, Boyi Zeng, Shixiang Song, Zhiqin John Xu, Ziwei He, Zhouhan Lin",
  "first_public": "2026-03-02",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2603.02023",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02023",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "token-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "controllability",
    "scaling"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "scaling"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Uses differentiable masks to allocate a variable number of recurrent pondering steps to different token positions.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "He Li",
    "Feichen Song",
    "Boyi Zeng",
    "Shixiang Song",
    "Zhiqin John Xu",
    "Ziwei He",
    "Zhouhan Lin"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-03-02",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2603.02023/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2603.02023/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2603.02023/citation.csl.json"
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