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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
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Life of Research Recursive reasoning models, which apply one small network many times to a latent state, report accuracies on Sudoku, maze and ARC-AGI puzzles above those of most frontier language models in their comparison tables, with 5 to…