Is looping weights anti-scaling? Researchers debate reusing params in forward passes

bookwormengr · x · 2026-09-03

Reacting to the claim that repeatedly reusing the same params in a forward pass is the most anti-scaling idea around, a commenter notes autoregressive models already reuse parameters—looped models just iterate more times at the same token position. The exchange probes the compute trade-offs of looped vs. deeper models.

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