arXiv Machine Learning

Recirculation

The paper introduces recirculation, an inference‑time architectural enhancement for foundation models that reduces perplexity and improves accuracy on generation and reasoning tasks without adding significant latency. Recirculation adds a specific form of recurrence, enabling the model to function as a dynamical system that tracks belief states, and is distinct from chain‑of‑thought or depth‑recurrence methods. An adaptive variant requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and achieves notable gains on the Gemma3 family, including a 23% perplexity drop and a 21% accuracy increase on GSM8k.

arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Scheduling Recursive Reasoning in Looped Transformers

arXiv:2609.36653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent reasoning models have attracted growing attention for scaling test-time computation, typically by iteratively refining latent states with sha...

By Boyuan Wang, Chengyao Yu, Jiaxi Ren, Hongxin Wei, Bingyi Jing, Yuxin Tao
arXiv AI
2d ago

Random Recursive Models

arXiv:2610.00541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recursive models create computational depth through parameter reuse, offering a parameter-efficient alternative to increasing model size. However, mo...

By Jama Hussein Mohamud, Mirco Ravanelli
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

RecurTrace: Adaptive Latent Reasoning with Loop-Time Memory

RecurTrace introduces adaptive latent reasoning for language models by allowing each looped layer to attend to its own past states and by using a halting head to decide when to stop iterating. This approach overcomes two limitations of prior latent recurrence methods: limited access to earlier computations and a fixed loop count that mismatches input difficulty. In experiments on MathQA, RecurTrace achieves 56.9% accuracy with an average of 2.0 loops, outperforming fixed‑depth baselines and other adaptive methods, and it also improves generation accuracy across a range of model sizes.

By Yuxiang Wang, Kunyu Feng, Yingda Shen, Haoning Xu, Junyu Wang, Zhizheng Wu
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Flow Reasoning Models: Turning Flows Into Efficient Recurrent Reasoners

Flow Reasoning Models (FRMs) are a new framework that turns continuous flow models into efficient recurrent reasoners for structured tasks. By self‑conditioning a flow model on its own past outputs, FRMs iteratively refine solutions, allowing parallel decision making and revision. The authors introduce Fixed‑Point Forcing (FPF) to mitigate exposure bias at deeper recursion, and report near‑perfect solve rates on Sudoku‑Extreme, Zebra, and Maze‑Unique, outperforming existing masked‑diffusion and specialized baselines while using far fewer inference FLOPs.

By Alec Helbling, Andrey Bryutkin, Mauro Martino, Duen Horng Chau, Nima Dehmamy, Hendrik Strobelt
arXiv AI
Jul 9

Cost-Effective Agent Harnesses for Abstract Reasoning and Generalization on ARC-AGI-1

arXiv:2607. 06764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress on ARC-AGI-1 from disclosed architectures has come broadly from two regimes: heavy test-time compute over frontier models (evolutionary search, exhaustive sampling, extended chain-of-thought), or benchmark-specific training in which small models are fine-tuned on ARC data, often with task-specialized architectures.

By Kabir Moghe, Peter Chin