Tiny in Parameters, Not in Compute: What a Recursive Reasoning Model's Puzzle Score Credits to Recursion, Why the Ablations Split by Task, and the Matched Comparisons That Would Assign the Rest

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). Tiny in Parameters, Not in Compute: What a Recursive Reasoning Model's Puzzle Score Credits to Recursion, Why the Ablations Split by Task, and the Matched Comparisons That Would Assign the Rest [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23598073

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@misc{lor1322026,
  title        = {Tiny in Parameters, Not in Compute: What a Recursive Reasoning Model's Puzzle Score Credits to Recursion, Why the Ablations Split by Task, and the Matched Comparisons That Would Assign the Rest},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23598073},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/132},
  keywords     = {recursive reasoning models, tiny recursive model, hierarchical reasoning model, latent recursion, test-time compute, ARC-AGI, Sudoku, evaluation methodology},
  note         = {LOR-00132}
}

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