Intuition: Compaction is agentic recurrence, recursion is agentic attention
lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-16
An intuition regarding AI agent architectures:
- Compaction is agentic recurrence (RNNs): Maintains a constant-size state by compressing the past.
- Recursion (RLMs): Keeps all context fully represented and decides how to re-process it at each step.
This draws a parallel between model architectures and agent mechanisms.
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