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cs.CL2026

How Depth Growth and Looping Shape In-Context Learning in Language Models

Ferdinand Kapl, Kaitlin Maile, Stefan Bauer +1

Looped and depth-grown language models reuse computations across depth and have attracted interest for their reasoning capabilities. Building on prior suggestive evidence of improv…

cs.CV2026

Growing to See: Efficient Pretraining of Self-Supervised Vision Transformers

Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan, Ferdinand Kapl, Andrea Dittadi +4

Progressive depth growth builds large networks by starting with shallow models and inserting layers during training. Recent advances in large language models have renewed interest…

cs.NE2026

Evolution With Purpose: Hierarchy-Informed Optimization of Whole-Brain Models

Hormoz Shahrzad, Niharika Gajawelli, Kaitlin Maile +2

Evolutionary search is well suited for large-scale biophysical brain modeling, where many parameters with nonlinear interactions and no tractable gradients need to be optimized. St…

cs.CL2026

From Growing to Looping: A Unified View of Iterative Computation in LLMs

Ferdinand Kapl, Emmanouil Angelis, Kaitlin Maile +2

Looping, reusing a block of layers across depth, and depth growing, training shallow-to-deep models by duplicating middle layers, have both been linked to stronger reasoning, but t…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

From Words to Amino Acids: Does the Curse of Depth Persist?

Aleena Siji, Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan, Ferdinand Kapl +9

Protein language models (PLMs) have become widely adopted as general-purpose models, demonstrating strong performance in protein engineering and de novo design. Like large language…