R-Qwen, a LoRA-adapted Qwen model that iteratively refines explicit candidate solutions under constraint projection, outperforms prior recursive models and zero-shot frontier LLMs on eight symbolic reasoning benchmarks.
Energy-guided Recursive Model
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Recursive reasoning models address structured problems by repeatedly updating latent states of small neural networks. However, their test-time scaling lacks a principled inference mechanism: increasing depth or stochastic breadth generates more trajectories without a clear criterion for selection, and existing methods predominantly rely on additional q-heads or heuristic voting. Here, we develop the Energy-guided Recursive Model (ERM), which introduces an intrinsic selection principle based on explicit Hopfield energies. ERM leverages Hopfield-type memories of valid local or global structures to define the selector over candidate trajectories. The resulting energy seamlessly integrates with energy-based techniques such as parallel tempering to enhance sampling efficiency and ranking. With $D=64$ recurrent steps and $K=128$ candidates, ERM reaches optimal solutions on Sudoku ($98.97\%$), Pencil Puzzle Bench (PPBench, $88.04\%$) and Maze ($99.30\%$), improving upon recent Probabilistic Tiny Recursive Model and Equilibrium Reasoners. These results suggest that incorporating explicit energy functions into recursive reasoning offers a principled path toward more effective inference.
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Recursive Vision Language Models for General Symbolic Reasoning
R-Qwen, a LoRA-adapted Qwen model that iteratively refines explicit candidate solutions under constraint projection, outperforms prior recursive models and zero-shot frontier LLMs on eight symbolic reasoning benchmarks.