Recursion Is More Powerful Than Attention, and RLMs Express Compression Easily

A technical take argues recursion (RLMs) is actually more powerful than attention: RLMs can easily express compression, which is hard for recurrent loops—framing compression as the agent's loop and recursion as its attention.

2026-08-16 ~ 2026-08-16 · 3 related posts

• Intuition: Compaction is agentic recurrence, recursion is agentic attention — lateinteraction · 2026-08-16
• Viewpoint: Recursion is More Powerful than Attention, RLMs Express Compaction Easily — lateinteraction · 2026-08-16

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