Chaubard: Recursive models tested on one step retain nearly full performance
Francois Chaubard · Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator · May 1, 2026 · at 30:01
Francois Chaubard examines the PyTorch implementation and empirical benchmark results of recursive reasoning architectures like HRM and TRM.
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“If you actually train on 16, and you test on only one, you get, like, seven eighths of the performance, or, like, almost all the performance. So it's actually quite interesting that this is just overdone, too much compute, and it doesn't actually help you all that much.”
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