Researcher's neat analogy: Loops is chain-of-thought for encoder LMs
_AndrewZhao · x · 2026-09-16
Researcher AndrewZhao offered a concise technical take: Loops is to encoder LMs what chain-of-thought is to decoder models — essentially bringing CoT-style iterative reasoning to models that don't generate autoregressively. A paper link was attached. The analogy provides an intuitive framing for reasoning-enhancement in encoder models, worth following up in the paper's details.
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