Langford explains FBT theory: nextlat's fixed-point convergence and para-RNN parallel training

JohnCLangford · x · 2026-09-04

Langford explains why nextlat was unnecessary for FBT: the nextlat paper's proof implies convergence to a sequence of fixed points, and after reading the para-RNN paper it was clear how to efficiently train a parallel traversal of that set of fixed points. A technical footnote to his Full Bandwidth Transformer / recursion research line.

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