{
  "id": "2609.34218",
  "title": "Loop Dropout: Regularizing Shared Updates in Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Zirui Zhu, Hailun Xu, Xuanlei Zhao, Yong Liu, Yingxuan Ren, Kanchan Sarkar, Kun Xu, Yang You",
  "first_public": "2026-09-28",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2609.34218",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34218",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Regularizes fine-tuning of looped language models by randomly masking adapter updates at selected loops. The shared backbone still runs at every loop; the method targets adapter updates that otherwise become concentrated at particular depths.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Zirui Zhu",
    "Hailun Xu",
    "Xuanlei Zhao",
    "Yong Liu",
    "Yingxuan Ren",
    "Kanchan Sarkar",
    "Kun Xu",
    "Yang You"
  ],
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  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2609-34218",
  "citation_date": "2026-09-28",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.34218/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2609.34218/citation.bib",
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