{
  "id": "2610.34436",
  "title": "Recency Is the Wrong Axis: A Negative Result on Windowed Deepest-Plane KV Caching in Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Dezhen Lu, Runguo Li, Zixiang Ni, Yuchen Tang, Xingquan Kong, Jiaxing Yang, Jiarui Guo",
  "previous_titles": [
    "Prefix Keys and Values Matter Late: RIPE Caching for Self-Speculative Decoding in Looped Language Models"
  ],
  "first_public": "2026-10-25",
  "added_at": "2026-11-02",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.34436",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34436",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.34436v2",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "cache-memory",
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only",
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "limitations",
    "evaluation"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Tests a cache policy that retains every loop’s keys and values for recent positions and shares the deepest loop’s cache elsewhere. Across three looped language models, recent-position windows fail to provide a reliable repair; convergence across loops and which positions share matter more.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-02",
  "author_names": [
    "Dezhen Lu",
    "Runguo Li",
    "Zixiang Ni",
    "Yuchen Tang",
    "Xingquan Kong",
    "Jiaxing Yang",
    "Jiarui Guo"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34436/",
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-25",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34436/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34436/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34436/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.34436"
}