Aha Looped Transformer

Think deeper. Find your Aha. An open visual atlas of recurrent computation, adaptive depth, and latent reasoning.

Explore the live atlas · Submit a paper · Contribution guide

Browse 199 curated works, follow their publication timeline, and compare recurrence and depth control.

This table and the website are generated from the same files in data/papers/. Dates indicate first publication. Categories are browsing aids, not an exhaustive taxonomy. Links indicate available materials; they do not imply independent reproduction.

Submit the GitHub Issue Form. Automation checks the fields, enriches bibliographic metadata, and prepares a review branch and a pull-request link (or opens a draft PR where permitted). A maintainer verifies the paper and merges it; the site then rebuilds automatically. Alternatively, add one YAML file in a pull request. No account is needed to browse; submitting uses your GitHub account.

An unreviewed submission is never published directly. Optional source links are reviewed by maintainers. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the data schema and editorial checks.

Requires Node.js 22.12+ (CI uses Node 24) and pnpm 11.19.0.

pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm dev
pnpm test
pnpm build

Astro generates static, independently addressable paper pages. Small browser scripts provide filters, comparison and Canvas animation. No database, tracking, runtime API keys or hosted application server.

GitHub Pages deploys from the Actions workflow after a push to main. In repository Settings → Pages, choose GitHub Actions. Submission automation uses only this repository’s temporary GITHUB_TOKEN. This organization currently restricts automated PR creation, so the bot creates a validated review branch and posts a link for a maintainer to create the PR. If draft PR creation is permitted in the future, it happens automatically. The bot never approves or merges PRs.

The submission workflow validates and builds its generated change before creating the draft PR, because bot-created PRs do not automatically trigger ordinary PR workflows. Fork pull requests run with read-only access. Publication uses a separate, main-only Pages job. Failed builds leave the previous deployment available. README is generated during deployment and synchronized to the repository only when it changes.

Code is MIT licensed. Original curated descriptions in data/ are CC BY 4.0. Paper titles, bibliographic facts and linked third-party research remain attributable to their original authors; this project does not relicense those works.