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LooM: Loop-Invariant Memory for Causal Encoder-Decoder Language Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- LooM enables looped Transformer decoders to reuse cache across iterations, supporting variable compute budgets from 3 to 21 layer executions per token without memory growth.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers optimizing inference cost and latency in encoder-decoder models where deployment-time compute budgets vary across different hardware or use cases.
- Watch out
- Paper is recent preprint with no reported implementation or benchmark comparisons against other looped Transformer approaches, limiting practical deployment guidance.
- language model
- encoder
- token
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