Loop, Think, & Generalize: Implicit Reasoning in Recurrent-Depth Transformers
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arXiv:2604.07822v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study implicit reasoning, i.e. the ability to combine knowledge or rules within a single forward pass. While transformer-based large language models store substantial factual knowledge and rules, they often fail to compose this knowledge for implicit multi-hop reasoning, suggesting a lack of compositional generalization over their parametric knowledge. To address this limitation, we study recurrent-depth transformers, which enables iterative computation over the same transformer layers. We investigate two compositional generalization
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.07822v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study implicit reasoning, i.e.
- the ability to combine knowledge or rules within a single forward pass.
- While transformer-based large language models store substantial factual knowledge and rules, they often fail to compose this knowledge for implicit multi-hop reasoning, suggesting a lack of compositional generalization over their parametric knowledge.
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