@misc{lit_2611_06206,
  title = { {Loop Before You Leap: What Recurrent Depth Can and Cannot Buy in Data-Limited Pretraining} },
  author = {Daichi Hotta and Yohei Kobashi and Takeshi Kojima and Yusuke Iwasawa and Yutaka Matsuo},
  year = {2026},
  note = {arXiv preprint},
  eprint = {2611.06206},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.06206}
}