IAAICompressing Looped Models
A Tilted Bowl Is Not a Slippery Slope: Compressing Looped Models
Tests the common claim that compressed looped models collapse because rounding error accumulates across loops. Across more than 30 models from five families, this holds only for loops that never settle; for settling loops, error shifts the fixed point instead of accumulating.
Inside the method
Low-bit [ Block ] × r → halting head fires → 8-bit [ Block ] × few
Simplified conceptual schematic. Consult the paper for the complete architecture.
- Recurrence family
- Core recurrence
- Depth control
- Halting-head controller plus final high-precision loops
- KV / state strategy
- See paper
Reading note
A single label-free measurement predicts which compressed models fail. The controller beats fixed-depth inference by up to 15 points on Sudoku-Extreme and Maze-Hard with under a third of the weight traffic.
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Cite this work
@misc{tiltedbowlcompression2026,
title = {A Tilted Bowl Is Not a Slippery Slope: Compressing Looped Models},
author = {Steven Kolawole and Pearse Jim and Opegbemi M. Busoye and Glory Bagai and Virginia Smith},
year = {2026},
eprint = {2609.39277},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39277}
}