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  "id": "2610.15218",
  "title": "Running Fewer Loops Removes Refusal Behaviour in Recurrent-Depth Language Models",
  "authors": "Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Arya Fayyazi, Saeid Shokoufa, Massoud Pedram",
  "first_public": "2026-10-10",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.15218",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.15218",
  "lens": [
    "analysis",
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only",
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "evaluation",
    "interpretability",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Studies how reducing recurrent depth changes refusal behavior in two looped language-model families. Uses probes and interventions to distinguish recognizing a harmful request from refusing it, and tests safety training across randomly selected depths.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Seyedarmin Azizi",
    "Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo",
    "Arya Fayyazi",
    "Saeid Shokoufa",
    "Massoud Pedram"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-10",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.15218/index.md",
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