Recursive LM author clarifies: what experiments prove vs. what the work is about
CShorten30 · x · 2026-09-03
On the Weaviate Podcast, Alex Zhang explains that a paper can only claim what its experiments prove. For the Recursive Language Models paper, the strongest provable claim was that offloading context into memory and acting programmatically solves long-context tasks — while the underlying intention was decomposition, inspired by how DSPy is used.
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