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Exploring Recurrent-Depth Language Models for Multitask Clinical Text Processing

Xi Yang, Guodong Liu, Cheng Peng, Kaleb E. Smith, Yingying Zhang, Xing He, Yi Guo, Jiang Bian, Haoteng Tang, Yonghui Wu

Jointly fine-tunes looped and hierarchical recurrent language models on nine clinical text datasets and tests transfer to four more. Compares direct-answer performance with standard transformers while noting that the model families also differ in pretraining.

First public: · Added to this list: October 22, 2026

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arXiv:2610.27559 · Initial submission: 2026-10-20

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Recurrent reasoning — Repeat parts of the model or keep intermediate information in memory while working through a problem. Some methods also learn how many passes to run.

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