LooM Enables Loop-Invariant Memory for Causal Encoder-Decoder Models
LooM loops only decoder layers after the first in causal encoder-decoder models to provide budgets from 3 to 21 executions per token without growing cache size.
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LooM loops only decoder layers after the first in causal encoder-decoder models to provide budgets from 3 to 21 executions per token without growing cache size.
LoopVQ quantizes KV cache at 0.5 bits per element for looped transformers, nearly halving decode latency at 32K context.
Two fully trained loops beat the compute-optimal non-looped model with about 27% fewer non-embedding parameters.

OpenAI will reportedly ship one or two models by year-end, but its looped-transformer flagship still needs alignment work and safety test infrastructure.
InfiLoop adds loop-native residuals so looped Transformers keep improving past 20,000 test-time steps.
SanSi adds looped System 1.5 thinking to typed decision models, reaching 72% accuracy.
LiFT loops a shared Diffusion Transformer and lowers ImageNet FID while cutting parameters and FLOPs.
Training-free LoopCD improves looped Transformer decoding and can cut recurrent compute by up to 48%.
LOOM scales looped Mixture-of-Experts Transformers to 9-12 loops, cutting 1.7B model perplexity from 9.62 to 7.77 with accuracy gains.
LoopCD uses earlier recurrent states for contrastive decoding, boosting looped Transformers while cutting inference FLOPs.
New scaling laws jointly model looped recurrence and MoE sparsity, matching larger models at equal compute.
New scaling laws jointly model recurrence and sparsity, predicting looped MoE loss and guiding compute-efficient design.
TAPS adapts recurrent step size in looped transformers, raising accuracy and cutting loops without retraining.
Foil flattens experts and unties attention in looped MoE models, lowering pretraining loss at equal parameters and compute.
TaH2 adaptively loops tokens that benefit, steepening the AIME accuracy-compute slope 53 percent versus a non-looped baseline.
Foil flattens experts and unties attention so looped mixture-of-experts models train with lower loss.
TaH2 adaptively loops layers on hard tokens, steepening AIME test-time scaling by 53% over a non-looped baseline.
Researchers show model growth via looped transformers improves scaling exponents; a 7.4B architecture matches GPT-3 13B with roughly 20x less compute.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its strongest model to date, with standout 3D rendering and computer-use performance and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3.

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 reportedly ranks as the world's #3 model, matching frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic with planned open weights.
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