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Structured Sparse Memory for Recurrent Reasoning

Sep 2026 · 0 citations · 20 references
Computer Science

Abstract

Recurrent models trained from scratch have recently become competitive on ARC-style reasoning tasks, but the usual framing around small recurrent backbones overlooks two important parts of the system: task-conditioned memory and synthetic augmentation data. We study this regime through CHARM, a compact hybrid ARC model that combines recurrent reasoning with structured task memory, synthetic data, and inference-time aggregation. In existing approaches, task-conditioned memory supplies a large hidden source of capacity, reaching more than 30x the size of the recurrent backbone. We introduce a compositional sparse embedding (CoSE) for task conditioning that reduces learned task-memory parameters by over 90% while improving pass@2 in controlled ARC ablations. For the recurrent backbone, recurrent depth helps only when balanced with learning horizon. Combining these ingredients, our system reaches 84% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-1 and 46.7% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-2 public evaluation. The benefits of structured memory also generalize to unseen puzzles and other domains. Our code, dataset, and model checkpoints are available at https://github.com/water-vapor/charm.

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