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2026-09-03
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Inference & Serving
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Paper Walkthrough — SMELT: Is Looping the Same Layers Twice Actually a Win When the Budget Is Matched?
A study of looped Transformers that finally controls the comparison: per-token FLOPs, total parameters, and KV cache are all held close. The resulting recipe, SMELT, loops the middle half twice and reports 6.8–18.0% training-FLOPs savings on the compute-optimal frontier.