Generative Recursive Reasoning

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Main Authors: Baek, Junyeob, Jo, Mingyu, Kim, Minsu, Ren, Mengye, Bengio, Yoshua, Ahn, Sungjin
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Published: 2026
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author Baek, Junyeob
Jo, Mingyu
Kim, Minsu
Ren, Mengye
Bengio, Yoshua
Ahn, Sungjin
author_facet Baek, Junyeob
Jo, Mingyu
Kim, Minsu
Ren, Mengye
Bengio, Yoshua
Ahn, Sungjin
contents How should future neural reasoning systems implement extended computation? Recursive Reasoning Models (RRMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive sequence extension by performing iterative latent-state refinement with shared transition functions. Yet existing RRMs are largely deterministic, following a single latent trajectory and converging to a single prediction. We introduce Generative Recursive reAsoning Models (GRAM), a framework that turns recursive latent reasoning into probabilistic multi-trajectory computation. GRAM models reasoning as a stochastic latent trajectory, enabling multiple hypotheses, alternative solution strategies, and inference-time scaling through both recursive depth and parallel trajectory sampling. This yields a latent-variable generative model supporting conditional reasoning via $p_θ(y \mid x)$ and, with fixed or absent inputs, unconditional generation via $p_θ(x)$. Trained with amortized variational inference, GRAM improves over deterministic recurrent and recursive baselines on structured reasoning and multi-solution constraint satisfaction tasks, while demonstrating an unconditional generation capability. https://ahn-ml.github.io/gram-website
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spellingShingle Generative Recursive Reasoning
Baek, Junyeob
Jo, Mingyu
Kim, Minsu
Ren, Mengye
Bengio, Yoshua
Ahn, Sungjin
Artificial Intelligence
How should future neural reasoning systems implement extended computation? Recursive Reasoning Models (RRMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive sequence extension by performing iterative latent-state refinement with shared transition functions. Yet existing RRMs are largely deterministic, following a single latent trajectory and converging to a single prediction. We introduce Generative Recursive reAsoning Models (GRAM), a framework that turns recursive latent reasoning into probabilistic multi-trajectory computation. GRAM models reasoning as a stochastic latent trajectory, enabling multiple hypotheses, alternative solution strategies, and inference-time scaling through both recursive depth and parallel trajectory sampling. This yields a latent-variable generative model supporting conditional reasoning via $p_θ(y \mid x)$ and, with fixed or absent inputs, unconditional generation via $p_θ(x)$. Trained with amortized variational inference, GRAM improves over deterministic recurrent and recursive baselines on structured reasoning and multi-solution constraint satisfaction tasks, while demonstrating an unconditional generation capability. https://ahn-ml.github.io/gram-website
title Generative Recursive Reasoning
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19376