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  "id": "2610.21594",
  "title": "LoopAhead: Speculating Ahead for Faster Decoding in Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Zixuan Liu, Nan Xue, Rui Bao, Yuhang Xu, Xiaofeng Cao, Jiangchao Yao, Zhiyong Chen",
  "first_public": "2026-10-15",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.21594",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21594",
  "summary": "Trains a small drafter to predict several future tokens from early-loop hidden states. Later loops decide which speculative branches to continue, and full-depth verification determines the final output.",
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    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
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    "depth-wise",
    "parallel"
  ],
  "training": [
    "distillation"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "architecture"
  ],
  "evidence": [
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    "formal"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Zixuan Liu",
    "Nan Xue",
    "Rui Bao",
    "Yuhang Xu",
    "Xiaofeng Cao",
    "Jiangchao Yao",
    "Zhiyong Chen"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-15",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.21594/index.md",
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