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Transformers in a loop as programmable computers

Published on September 17, 2026, the article describes a framework using specific weights and recurrent Transformer layers to emulate computational operations, including conditional branches and program counters.

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Engineering

Switch Attention varies attention patterns

A paper presents a dynamic, granular approach combining full and sliding-window attention in hybrid transformers, addressing the former's quadratic cost and the latter's narrower receptive field.

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Engineering

Thinking with Looped Flows uses local denoising

A post published on September 16, 2026, reports that local denoising objectives helped recurrent Looped Flows models with multi-step computation. It says they outperformed earlier looped models on six reasoning benchmarks, including 58.8% accuracy on ARC-AGI-1.

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Radar: scaling byte and token models

A paper compares distilled byte and token models trained at scales up to 1 trillion bytes and reports a higher performance ceiling for byte models as compute increases.

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