Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
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Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
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Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#2This is old news! Agent-loops are not a model architechture
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#3It broke new ground!
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#4https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871
another recursive based model
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#5Recursion is so popular in computing that this term “recursive language model” is heavily overloaded
It was even before the rise of LLMs
The authors may want to consider a more specific name
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#6This is old news! Agent-loops are not a model architechture
Everything old is new again when you are in academia
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#7https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871 another recursive based model
It's a completely different kind of recursion for a completely different (non-language) task.
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#8This is old news! Agent-loops are not a model architechture
Everything old is new again when you are in academia
This feels primarily like an issue with machine learning, at least among mathematical subdisciplines. As new people continue to be drawn into the field, they rarely bother to read what has come even a few years prior (nevermind a few decades prior).
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#9This is old news! Agent-loops are not a model architechture
Loops aren’t recursion?
Re: Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
#10> Lastly, in our experiments we only consider a recursive depth of 1 — i.e. the root LM can only call LMs, not other RLMs. It is a relatively easy change to allow the REPL environment to call RLMs instead of LMs, but we felt that for most modern “long context” benchmarks, a recursive depth of 1 was sufficient to handle most problems. However, for future work and investigation into RLMs, enabling larger recursive depth will naturally lead to stronger and more interesting systems.
It feels a little disingenuous to call it a Recursive Language Model when the recursive depth of the study was only 1.