{
  "id": "2610.41825",
  "title": "Where KV-Cache Error Lives in Looped Language Models: A Diagnostic Study of Ouro and Huginn",
  "authors": "Dezhen Lu, Runguo Li, Zixiang Ni, Yuchen Tang, Xingquan Kong, Jiaxing Yang, Jiarui Guo, Lingxiang Gao",
  "first_public": "2026-10-30",
  "added_at": "2026-11-02",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.41825",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41825",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.41825v1",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state",
    "cache-memory"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Measures how quantizing different loop-specific keys and values changes predictions in Ouro and Huginn. Tests sensitivity-based error estimates and bit allocations, distinguishing typical-sequence behavior from large errors concentrated in a few sequences.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-02",
  "author_names": [
    "Dezhen Lu",
    "Runguo Li",
    "Zixiang Ni",
    "Yuchen Tang",
    "Xingquan Kong",
    "Jiaxing Yang",
    "Jiarui Guo",
    "Lingxiang Gao"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-30",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.41825/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.41825/citation.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.41825"
}