{
  "id": "2609.27373",
  "title": "Attention Routing Stabilizes Early: Working-Set Inference for Recurrent Language Models",
  "authors": "Ke Wan, Chen Chen",
  "first_public": "2026-09-23",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.27373",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27373",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only",
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "efficiency",
    "architecture"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Studies when a recurrent language model settles on which context tokens to attend to. Reuses that selected working set in later loops while still recomputing attention weights and hidden-state updates.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Ke Wan",
    "Chen Chen"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-23",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.27373/index.md",
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