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  "id": "2609.19521",
  "title": "Storing Is Not Remembering: LSTM-UT and Bounded Gated Memory for Looped Transformers",
  "authors": "Aras Kavuncu, Muhammad Burhan Hafez",
  "first_public": "2026-09-17",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.19521",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19521",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state",
    "cache-memory"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise",
    "stateful"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining",
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "generalization",
    "interpretability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "symbolic",
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Adds a small gated memory to a looped transformer and compares it with storing the full history of recurrent states. Uses a cellular-automaton task and language modeling to test whether memory remains useful as computation grows.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Aras Kavuncu",
    "Muhammad Burhan Hafez"
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-17",
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