{
  "id": "2608.18230",
  "title": "Allocating Recurrent Compute in Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Ruhai Lin, Yiyang Guo, Rui-Jie Zhu, Hao Ye, Jason K. Eshraghian",
  "first_public": "2026-08-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2608.18230",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18230",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "efficiency",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Studies which transformer components should recur and introduces MixerLoop, which repeats the sequence mixer while applying the dense feed-forward component once.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-05",
  "author_names": [
    "Ruhai Lin",
    "Yiyang Guo",
    "Rui-Jie Zhu",
    "Hao Ye",
    "Jason K. Eshraghian"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-08-18",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2608.18230/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2608.18230/citation.bib",
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