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Training cost vs depth

Nested Recurrent Memory: Training Kernels

How the upper levels of a nested GDN-2 are implemented, and how it benchmarks against a flat GDN-2 with the same recurrent state: a slower forward, a backward that gets cheaper with depth, and much lower peak memory.

September 19, 2026 · 7 min · a wehrs
Chunkwise memory update

Nested Recurrent Memory

A framework for multi-state RNNs in which each layer maintains a chain of nested memory states, with learned operators promoting information between levels end-to-end.

August 30, 2026 · 17 min · a wehrs