{
  "id": "2610.25086",
  "title": "Dual-Slot: From Serial Loops to Parallel Slots in Language Models",
  "authors": "Yiqin Hao, Zitong Wang, Boyi Zeng, He Li, Shixiang Song, Feichen Song, Yifan Liu, Zhouhan Lin",
  "first_public": "2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-22",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.25086",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25086",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.25086v1",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "beyond-sequential"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "parallel",
    "stateful"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "efficiency",
    "scaling"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "scaling"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Processes a latent slot and a prediction slot together, carrying the previous token's hidden state into the current prediction. Uses parallel iterative updates during training while preserving autoregressive text generation at inference.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-10-22",
  "author_names": [
    "Yiqin Hao",
    "Zitong Wang",
    "Boyi Zeng",
    "He Li",
    "Shixiang Song",
    "Feichen Song",
    "Yifan Liu",
    "Zhouhan Lin"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-18",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.25086/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.25086/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.25086/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.25086"
}