Depth-adaptive Inference of Looped Language Models via Continuous Depth Batching
A main promise of looped language models is depth-adaptive inference. By looping a block of shared layers a variable number of times, the model can use less compute for "easy" tokens and more for "hard" ones. However, tokens with different numbers of loops cannot share a uniform forward pass and therefore cannot be handled by standard batching systems such as vLLM. The practical value of depth-adaptive inference thus hinges on whether batching can be made efficient. We introduce the first efficient method for depth-adaptive looped LMs via continuous depth batching (CDB), which forms new batches between loop steps. Our method dynamically schedules looped and non-looped parts of the archite...
| Authors | Kristian Schwethelm, Daniel Rueckert, Georgios Kaissis |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 10 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 25 September 2026 |
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