{
  "id": "2610.10623",
  "title": "Recurrent Self-Improvement: Dynamic Cross-Loop On-Policy Distillation for Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Yi Wang, Rui Qian, Yu Li, Haoyang Yao, Wenjie Wang",
  "first_public": "2026-10-07",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.10623",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10623",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "self-distillation"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "architecture",
    "theory"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "formal"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Trains an intermediate loop using a deeper loop of the same language model as its teacher on student-generated outputs. A dynamic variant refreshes the teacher during training, turning additional recurrent computation into a source of supervision.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Yi Wang",
    "Rui Qian",
    "Yu Li",
    "Haoyang Yao",
    "Wenjie Wang"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-07",
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