{
  "id": "2609.17184",
  "title": "LoopSpec: Pipelined Self-Speculative Decoding for Looped Transformers",
  "authors": "SangLyul Cho, Langqing Cui, Sehoon Kim, Dongsu Han, Insu Han",
  "first_public": "2026-09-15",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.17184",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17184",
  "summary": "Drafts future tokens from early loops while later loops verify current tokens, overlapping the work without training an extra model. Final verification preserves the full model's decoding behavior.",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "architecture"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "formal"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "SangLyul Cho",
    "Langqing Cui",
    "Sehoon Kim",
    "Dongsu Han",
    "Insu Han"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-15",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.17184/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.17184/citation.bib",
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