Definition
Plain language
A stable looped language model design used as a baseline for attractor-style architectures.
As stated in the literature
A 2026 looped-transformer language model architecture used as the primary baseline for Attractor Models on language modeling Pareto curves.
Why it matters: A clean, well-documented looped baseline makes claims about new iterative-reasoning architectures testable rather than vibes-based.
For example, Parcae uses fixed-point-style looping to read inputs, against which newer attractor architectures are compared on loss-versus-compute curves.
Heard on the show
“So on the language modeling side, the comparison they care about is against a model called Parcae — that's the current best stable looped language model, also a twenty-twenty-six paper.”Episode 041 — When the Iteration Teaches the Model to Skip the Iteration