{
  "id": "2609.01449",
  "title": "Diffusion as a Training Curriculum for Timestep-Free Iterative Reasoning",
  "authors": "Mariia Drozdova, Aidan Sirbu, Pietro Miotti, Robert Obryk, Mayalen Etcheverry, Eyvind Niklasson, Blake Richards",
  "first_public": "2026-09-01",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.01449",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01449",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state",
    "continuous-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "diffusion"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised",
    "curriculum"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "generalization",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Turns a diffusion denoiser into a recurrent puzzle solver by adding a persistent hidden state and removing timestep conditioning. Separates the role of denoising during training from the role of repeated updates and noise at inference.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Mariia Drozdova",
    "Aidan Sirbu",
    "Pietro Miotti",
    "Robert Obryk",
    "Mayalen Etcheverry",
    "Eyvind Niklasson",
    "Blake Richards"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-01",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.01449/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.01449/citation.bib",
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