{
  "id": "2610.34639",
  "title": "Cross-Loop Query Handoff: How Later Loops Redirect Two-Hop Retrieval in the Ouro Looped Language Models",
  "authors": "Ziyu Mu, Zehua Wang",
  "first_public": "2026-10-25",
  "added_at": "2026-11-02",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.34639",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34639",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.34639v1",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Transplants attention queries from later loops into earlier ones to test how Ouro retrieves two-hop answers. Controlled swaps support bridge-conditioned retrieval on synthetic questions, with weaker results on natural questions and differences between candidate ranking and generated answers.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-02",
  "author_names": [
    "Ziyu Mu",
    "Zehua Wang"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34639/",
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-25",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34639/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34639/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.34639/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.34639"
}