RFD4 Replaces Self-Conditioning with Recurrent Updates, Echoing Looped-Flow 'Thinking'
The RFD4-Proteina team dropped long-used self-conditioning in favor of recurrent updates: the model keeps xt fixed while iteratively refining its hidden state, performing more compute per step with fewer total steps.
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