{
  "id": "2608.18222",
  "title": "Think Shallow, Solve Deep: Controlling Recurrent Dynamics for Reliable Test-Time Depth",
  "authors": "Ivan Viakhirev, Kirill Borodin, Amirah Almutairi, Serguei Barannikov, Maxim Abramov, Grach Mkrtchian",
  "first_public": "2026-08-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2608.18222",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18222",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised",
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "theory",
    "controllability",
    "generalization",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
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    "empirical",
    "boundary"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Studies when extra transformer loops improve an answer or make it worse. Gives a condition under which further loops cannot change the answer, and trains models toward this stable behavior.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-05",
  "author_names": [
    "Ivan Viakhirev",
    "Kirill Borodin",
    "Amirah Almutairi",
    "Serguei Barannikov",
    "Maxim Abramov",
    "Grach Mkrtchian"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-08-18",
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