{
  "id": "2611.08741",
  "title": "AlterNet: Adaptive-Depth Mixture-of-Experts with Learned Halting for Elastic Inference",
  "authors": "Alexander Kastius",
  "first_public": "2026-11-05",
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2611.08741",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08741",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2611.08741v1",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "pretraining"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "architecture",
    "efficiency",
    "controllability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Routes each sequence through shallow experts repeatedly, using the current hidden state and depth to choose experts. Trains expert-specific stopping signals alongside the language model so computation can end at different depths.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-09",
  "author_names": [
    "Alexander Kastius"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-11-05",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.08741/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.08741/citation.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.08741"
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