LoopQ: Quantization for Looped Language Models
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arXiv:2610.16368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Looped Language Models (LoopLMs) improve parameter efficiency by recursively reusing shared Transformer modules, yet their repeated computation over...
arXiv:2609.37379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped Transformers provide a parameter-efficient approach to depth scaling by repeatedly applying shared Transformer blocks. Recent reasoning models h...
arXiv:2609.30820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Looped transformers reuse weights across recurrence steps, making low-bit quantization especially attractive. We identify two distinct failure modes...
arXiv:2602. 10431v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demand substantial computational and memory resources, posing challenges for efficient deployment.
FlashLoop is a training‑free inference framework for Looped Transformers that reduces cross‑loop redundancy by employing token‑sparse updates, sparse attention, and KV‑residual quantization. It exploits observations that, as loops progress, state changes concentrate on a small token subset, attention differences are dominated by a sparse key subset, and KV residuals become amenable to low‑bit quantization. The method achieves lossless accuracy with up to 1.64× speedup and 6× KV‑cache memory reduction across several Looped Transformer models.
The paper introduces CHASE, a cache‑hole‑adapted skip‑exit mechanism for looped state‑space language models, specifically Looped Mamba and Looped Hybrid Mamba‑Transformer. It shows that looping these architectures improves performance on controlled reasoning tasks and remains competitive in pre‑training benchmarks while using fewer distinct parameters. The cache‑hole adaptation allows selective skipping of recurrent steps during inference, maintaining perplexity close to full computation and achieving significant speedups.