{
  "id": "2609.01924",
  "title": "Looped Transformers under the Jacobian Lens: Does the Global Workspace Survive Recurrence?",
  "authors": "Wenlong Wang, Fergal Reid",
  "first_public": "2026-09-01",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.01924",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01924",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "architecture",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Tracks information that can be decoded from, and altered within, repeated transformer layers. Finds that Ouro reconstructs this information each loop, while Huginn carries it forward.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-05",
  "author_names": [
    "Wenlong Wang",
    "Fergal Reid"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-01",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.01924/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.01924/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.01924/citation.csl.json"
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