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11 papers

cs.CL2026

LoopMTP: A looped transformer guided by latent multi-token prediction

Behzad Shomali, Markus Frey, David Berghaus +2

Looped transformers have emerged as a parameter-efficient alternative to scaling depth for strong reasoning. By reusing one stack of layers across iterations, they attain the e…

cs.CL2026

A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English

The Soofi-Team, Soofi-Team, : +31

We present Soofi S 30B-A3B, a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid Mamba Transformer foundation model for German and English. Its hybrid design activates only 3B…

cs.CL2026

LLM Parameters for Math Across Languages: Shared or Separate?

Behzad Shomali, Luisa Victor, Tim Selbach +5

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit substantial cross-lingual variation in mathematical reasoning performance, but it remains unclear whether these differences reflect language-sp…

cs.CL2026

KletterMix: Climbing Toward High-Quality German Pretraining Data - The Full Report

Maurice Kraus, Ruben Härle, Sebastian Sztwiertnia +5

High-quality pretraining data is a central ingredient in modern language models, but German-language resources remain far less developed than their English counterparts: they are o…

cs.CL2026

A Dual-Path Architecture for Scaling Compute and Capacity in LLMs

Markus Frey, Behzad Shomali, Joachim Koehler +1

Looped transformers apply a shared block multiple times and have emerged as a parameter-efficient route to scaling compute in language models. However, at fixed FLOPs a looped mode…

cs.CL2026

Adaptive Loops and Memory in Transformers: Think Harder or Know More?

Markus Frey, Behzad Shomali, Ali Hamza Bashir +3

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting enables reasoning in language models but requires explicit verbalization of intermediate steps. Looped transformers offer an alternative by iterati…