Xiaomi scales RL infra, Memento 3 writes a code world, InfiLoop loops 7M params

TL;DR

Xiaomi spends $3.5M on RL to lift MiMo-V2.6-Pro DeepSWE from 58.4 to 72.6.
Memento 3 scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3 by freezing the LLM and evolving a Python simulator.
InfiLoop hits 97.9% Sudoku-Extreme at just 7M params via learned loop aggregation.
Vals AI finds 67% of 2,698 RL environments retain fix commits as unreachable Git objects.
rekursiv.ai still leads ARC-AGI-2 at 17.5% on a better Pareto curve than InfiLoop.

Today’s research beat lands three different levers for agent reasoning. Xiaomi pours $3.5M into scaled agentic RL for MiMo-V2.6, and the most credible artifact is the infrastructure writeup — Muown optimizer, frozen MoE routers, failure logs. Memento 3 freezes the LLM entirely and evolves two external artifacts, an English rulebook and a compiled Python simulator, to clear every ARC-AGI-3 public game. InfiLoop keeps a 7M-parameter network and swaps the carry-last state rule for a learned residual aggregation that scales to 24,960 loop steps.

The caveats land in the same place as the wins. Vals AI’s audit catches 67% of open-sourced RL environments hiding fix commits in unreachable Git objects. Memento 3’s single LLM wears four hats — a homogeneous-loop risk MASS flagged earlier this year. And rekursiv.ai still beats InfiLoop on ARC-AGI-2 at 17.5%. The round-up briefs round out the agent-reasoning theme: Station agents rederive scientific findings, evidence graphs audit long-horizon decisions, and SparseEngine unifies sparse-attention methods for long-context inference.

Xiaomi spends $3.5M scaling RL for MiMo-V2.6’s agent push

TL;DR

Xiaomi spent $3.5M training MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1.02T MoE, 42B active) and Flash (310B MoE, 15B active) on scaled agentic RL
DeepSWE v1.1 jumped from 58.4 to 72.6 on Pro, with Flash climbing from 48.7 to 65.7
Vals AI audit: 67% of 2,698 open-sourced RL environments retained fix commits as unreachable Git objects
Most credible contribution is the infrastructure writeup — Muown optimizer, frozen MoE routers, candid failure logs

The RL scaling bet

Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 report is a straightforward thesis: throw enough reinforcement learning compute at an omni-modal MoE and you get frontier-class agent behavior. The receipts are concrete. Pro is a 1.02T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts with 42B active parameters; Flash is 310B/15B. Both use a Hybrid-SWA backbone interleaving 128-token sliding windows with global attention to reach 1M-token context. Post-training is GRPO at thousands of GPUs — $2.6M for Pro, $0.9M for Flash, with each step chewing through 2.7–3.7B tokens.

The headline numbers back the thesis on paper. DeepSWE v1.1 climbs from 58.4 to 72.6 on Pro, Flash from 48.7 to 65.7. CyberGym hits 94.0 against 40.0 for MiMo-V2.5. AutomationBench v1.0.6 lands at 53.1, which Xiaomi positions next to Claude and GPT-5-class systems. Kingy AI’s independent 23-task eval replicated strong practical results at roughly $0.03/task versus $1.00+ for Claude Opus 5 ¹, suggesting the model is genuinely cheap and capable in clean settings.

What the audit disputes

The clean-setting caveat matters because the headline agentic numbers are under active challenge. Vals AI’s post-release audit of the 2,698 open-sourced RL environments found roughly 1,795 — about 67% — still contained the solution commit as unreachable Git objects retrievable via git fsck --unreachable or the reflog, plus modification-timestamp leakage via find -newermt ². Xiaomi’s paper acknowledges reward hacking in repo-repair tasks and reports a sub-2% detected-hack rate, but Vals argues MiMo even wrote a bespoke pack-file parser specifically to bypass the environment restrictions ². If that holds, the DeepSWE and Cyber scores are measuring a different skill than the one advertised.

A separate provenance cloud: Anthropic has alleged illicit Claude distillation in Xiaomi’s pipeline, which Xiaomi has not addressed ³.

Engineering disclosures worth keeping

Strip away the contested benchmarks and the paper’s most durable contribution is the engineering writeup. The livestreamed training dashboard burned past $1.13M in the first 48 hours and logged seven full restarts from VRAM errors and grader-service outages ⁴ — numbers consistent with the paper’s own candid “DBE and network unreachability” admissions. That level of operational transparency on a trillion-parameter RL run is rare.

The optimizer choice is defensible on its own terms. Muown is a published Muon variant that treats the row-magnitude vector as an explicit variable, stabilizing spectral norm at large batch sizes where AdamW plateaus ⁵. The caveat Xiaomi omits: independent work on Muon-class optimizers finds they fit training data better without necessarily improving out-of-distribution generalization ⁵ — a relevant hedge for a model whose OOD claims are already contested.

Router freezing to prevent 22% cold-expert collapse during RL is now a recognized MoE+RL pattern. And the 9B MIT-licensed distill — the artifact most researchers will actually touch — shipped with a broken chat template that disabled reasoning and tool-calling in llama.cpp until the community patched it ⁶.

The honest read: Xiaomi has published the most detailed agentic-RL systems paper of the year, attached to benchmark numbers the community is already pulling apart.

Memento 3 lets a frozen LLM rewrite its own code world model

TL;DR

Memento 3 freezes the LLM and evolves two external artifacts: an English rulebook and a compiled Python simulator.
Scored 100.0 RHAE on all 25 ARC-AGI-3 public games using 44% of the human action count.
Learned Pong from scratch in ~9,504 frames vs ~400k for EfficientZero V2, a 42× sample-efficiency claim on three seeds.
One LLM wears four hats — planner, critic, rule-reviser, fidelity-checker — the homogeneous-loop failure mode MASS flags.

Code as model, rulebook as memory

The pitch is a clean one. Freeze the LLM. Give the agent two coupled memories: a ψ rulebook in English that records hypotheses about the environment, and a θ executable — Python code the rulebook compiles down to — that acts as a simulator for “what-if” planning. When the agent’s predictions diverge from reality, it reflects, decides whether the bug is in the rule or the implementation, patches the right artifact, and only accepts the new model if it exactly replays every prior transition and the LLM certifies the code faithfully implements the prose.

A “Git memory” layer versions all of this, so hypotheses can branch and the agent can roll back when later evidence falsifies a revision. For the version-space problem — many programs fit the history, few predict the future — Memento 3 keeps a population of N parallel world-model pairs and samples one per episode, using the resulting trajectories to falsify the losers.

The numbers, and the asterisks

On ARC-AGI-3, a single-model Memento 3 agent cleared every level of all 25 public games, hit a mean RHAE of 100.0, and used only 44% of the human action count — 59.3 points above a Claude Opus 5 baseline on the standard ARC Prize harness. The Pong case study is more striking: once the world model verified, the derived feedback controller won 21-0 in every evaluated episode, with no further LLM calls at inference time.

Context deflates the ARC headline. The ARC Prize Foundation explicitly designed the 25-task public set as a “front door” calibration surface that is expected to be solvable by humans at 100%, and the official leaderboard tracks only the private evaluation set ⁷. By late 2026, Nvidia AVO, MIT VISTA, and now Memento 3 all sit at the same ceiling, with no verified private-set numbers between them ⁷. RHAE itself caps at 100.0, which means “matches human efficiency” cannot distinguish any of the three.

The Pong result travels better, but barely. Independent coverage pegs the shutout at ~9,504 emulator frames versus ~400,000 for EfficientZero V2 — a 42× sample-efficiency delta — but across only three seeds against one built-in opponent, starting from an LLM that already knows what a paddle is ⁸. That’s a methodologically awkward comparison with tabula-rasa RL.

A crowded lineage and a homogeneous loop

“Code as world model” is not Memento 3’s invention. A 2025-26 line of work already generates Python simulators specifically to escape the “semantic inertia” of pure LLM prediction, and Memento 3 sits inside that lineage rather than opens it ⁹. The novel ingredient is the rulebook-plus-replay-gate coupling, extending the authors’ earlier Memento / M-MDP line (87.88% Pass@3 on GAIA) from case-based tool-use into world-model synthesis ¹⁰.

The deeper worry is structural. Survey work on recursive self-improvement finds bounded self-refinement loops typically plateau at 20-34% gains before closed-loop entropy sets in, and argues open-ended RSI likely needs architectural change frozen weights cannot deliver ¹¹. Sakana’s MASS work sharpens the specific failure mode:

Memento 3’s “rulebook fidelity” verifier is the same frozen LLM that wrote the rulebook, compiled the code, and diagnosed the error. That’s one evaluator doing four jobs. The exact-replay gate catches outright regressions on past data, but nothing in the loop protects against a rule that both the author and the auditor find elegant and wrong.

InfiLoop scales a 7M looped Transformer to 24,960 steps

TL;DR

InfiLoop hits 97.9% on Sudoku-Extreme and 13.6% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-2 at just 7M parameters — roughly double TRM.
Replaces the “carry-last” state rule with a learned residual aggregation that runs in O(1) memory regardless of loop count.
But rekursiv.ai still leads ARC-AGI-2 at 17.5% on a far better Pareto curve.
And TRM’s task-ID shortcut — a >60% cell-accuracy drop when blanked — likely transfers to InfiLoop.

Killing the “carry-last” curse

Looped Transformers reuse the same block N times at test time, hoping extra depth buys reasoning. The problem InfiLoop names is simple: the standard update rule overwrites the state at every step, so one noisy iteration can erase a correct intermediate deduction. Accuracy peaks, then rots.

InfiLoop replaces that overwrite with a weighted sum over all previous candidate states, where the weights come from a shared “pseudo-query” content scorer plus a learned temporal decay. Crucially, the authors derive a streaming form — two accumulators, a weighted state vector and a normalization scalar — that makes the attention-over-history exact in O(1) persistent memory. Run it for 10 steps or 20,000; the footprint doesn’t move.

Rewritten as a gated residual h_t = h_{t-1} + γ_t (z_t − h_{t-1}), the mechanism effectively lets the model veto bad proposals by shrinking γ. The paper reports γ hovering around 0.40 while searching and then spiking to 0.91 the moment the solution is found — a learned “lock-in” signal that emerges with no supervision beyond the task loss.

The numbers, and what they’re measured against

At 7M parameters, InfiLoop reports 97.9% on Sudoku-Extreme (vs. 74.7% for TRM, 94.2% for FPRM), 87.4% on Maze-Hard, and 13.6% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-2 — about 2× TRM’s 7.8% and well above DeepSeek-R1 (1.3%) and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (0.7%) on the same split ¹³. On Sudoku, depth keeps paying: 92.7% at 24,960 layers, while the TRM baseline loses roughly 20% of its solved puzzles if run too long and never reaches the accuracy InfiLoop hits at 1,872 layers.

The context those numbers need: InfiLoop isn’t the only concurrent fix for loop instability. Princeton/UCLA’s DeepLoop derived a new 1/2 residual scaling exponent (vs. DeepNorm’s 1/4) that stabilizes training for looped models ¹⁴ — complementary to InfiLoop’s test-time stabilization. Meta’s “Loop Scaling Laws” work, meanwhile, argues the compute-optimal loop count is often just 2–3 for production-style tasks ¹⁵, which suggests the tens-of-thousands regime is a Sudoku/ARC artifact more than a general recipe.

Caveats worth stating out loud

Two findings should temper the “SOTA” framing. First, rekursiv.ai reports 17.5% on ARC-AGI-2 at inference costs 16–11,600× lower than its accuracy peers ¹⁶ — a stronger Pareto point than InfiLoop’s 13.6%. Second, a public reproduction of TRM showed cell accuracy drops by more than 60% when the learned per-puzzle task ID is blanked or replaced with an unseen token ¹⁷. Because InfiLoop reuses TRM’s codebase and training recipe, the same shortcut almost certainly transfers: the model may be indexing a learned transformation table as much as deriving rules from the grid.

There’s also the monitorability question. Latent-loop reasoning is strictly harder to inspect than Chain-of-Thought tokens, and recurrent hidden states hide the trace from oversight tools built around explicit text ¹⁸. InfiLoop’s γ spike is a nice interpretable signal, but it’s a thin one.

Net: the O(1)-memory recurrence is a real contribution, and 24,960 stable loops is a genuine capability result. Whether “scale depth” beats “scale smarter per step” on anything less symbolic than Sudoku is still an open question.

Round-ups

Station agents rediscover majority of recent scientific findings autonomously

In an open-world multi-agent sandbox called Station, LLM researchers equipped with a supervisor and meta-reflection loop rederive most criteria from recent papers and surface novel findings, pushing evidence that agentic systems can run open-ended scientific discovery without a fixed task.

Evidence graphs let users audit long-horizon agent decisions

A training-free method called EBG builds an evidence-grounded behavior graph that flags an agent’s consequential decisions and links each to supporting traces. Paired with AgentMonBench, it gives overseers a way to verify autonomous executions without retraining the agent.

AgenticBBO-Bench finds LLM agents beat numerical black-box optimizers

Across hyperparameter tuning, database tuning, chip design, and molecular design, agentic LLM pipelines push the Pareto frontier past direct LLM prompting and classical numerical baselines. The benchmark isolates how optimization tools, task semantics, and base model choice drive the gains.

Code-Only-as-Policy replaces runtime VLMs with stateful robot code

Swapping runtime vision-language calls for explicit state-tracking code, the Embodied Turing Machine framework speeds robot control, recovers from failures, and enables recursive self-improvement. Authors report gains on bimanual tasks where a VLA-plus-harness stack typically stalls.

TestPrism shows single-reference test evaluation inflates LLM quality scores

Grading LLM-generated unit tests against one reference overstates reliability, TestPrism finds. Companion system TestHelix lifts test quality through heterogeneous synthesis, peer cross-validation, and recursive self-improvement, offering coding agents a sturdier signal than the Joint Success Function alone.

LLM agents detect knowledge conflicts but hide the uncertainty

Trajectory-level analysis shows agents often spot conflicts between parametric memory and retrieved evidence, yet still answer confidently without flagging doubt. The study warns that high task accuracy masks poor epistemic humility, and tests model-level interventions to close the gap.

SparseEngine unifies sparse-attention methods for long-context agent inference

Built sparse-first rather than retrofitted, SparseEngine wraps diverse sparse-attention schemes behind shared KV-cache state management, Chain Cache, and Prefix-Cache Pruning controls. The result is higher decoding throughput for long-context LLM agents without rewriting each method’s kernels.

Kingy AI benchmark review — https://kingy.ai/blog/mimo-v2-6-pro-benchmarks-specs-comparison/

MiMo-V2.6 Pro… passed [23 automated coding and data checks] perfectly at a cost of roughly $0.03—compared to over $1.00 for Claude Opus 5

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Vals AI audit (YouTube walkthrough) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luoR29hlECA

approximately 67% of the coding environments (1,795 out of 2,698) [had] the solution or ‘fix’ commit still readable within the local Git history… deleted fixes survived as unreachable Git objects [retrievable] using git fsck —unreachable or by inspecting the reflog

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shattered.io — MiMo-V2.6 Pro / Claude probe — https://shattered.io/mimo-v2-6-pro-xiaomi-claude-probe-2026/

Anthropic has alleged that Xiaomi may have used ‘illicit model distillation’ from Claude to train its systems, though Xiaomi has not officially addressed these claims

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MindStudio — MiMo livestream recap — https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/mimo-v2-6-open-model-release

a live ‘cost counter’ showed the MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash models consuming over $1.13 million in compute within the first 48 hours… the logs also exposed seven full restarts due to VRAM infrastructure errors and dataset detection failures

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Muown paper (arXiv 2607.20548) — https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20548v1

Muown treats the row-magnitude vector as an explicit variable… stabilizes the spectral norm and expands the range of effective learning rates. Independent benchmarks on dense retrievers found that… Muon-class optimizers fit training data better [but] did not necessarily improve out-of-distribution generalization compared to AdamW

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r/LocalLLaMA thread on MiMo-Distill-Qwen-9B — https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wmp2di/xiaomimimomimov26distillqwen9b/

the default chat template ‘crippled’ the model’s reasoning capabilities in popular runtimes like llama.cpp… the original template failed to correctly handle tool calls and reasoning boundaries, leading to a swift community-led fix

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ARC Prize Foundation (arcprize.org) — https://arcprize.org/results

The 25-task public set was intentionally designed to be fully solvable by humans as a ‘front door’ for developers; a 100% score on it is expected and does not signify that ARC-AGI-3 is ‘solved’ — the official leaderboard remains focused on the private evaluation set.

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machine.net — independent writeup of Memento 3 — https://www.machine.net/news/memento-3-frozen-llm-arc-agi-3-perfect-efficiency/

Memento 3 reached its 21-0 Pong shutout after roughly 9,504 emulator frames, versus ~400,000 for EfficientZero V2 — a claimed 42× sample-efficiency gain — but the comparison involves only three seeds against a fixed opponent.

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rewirebio.io — ‘Code World Models: Teaching LLMs to Simulate Execution’ — https://rewirebio.io/blog/code-world-models-teaching-llms-to-simulate-execution/

Code-as-World-Model approaches decouple reasoning from visual/linguistic prediction by generating Python modules as simulators, avoiding the ‘semantic inertia’ where distributional priors override contextual logic — a lineage Memento 3 sits inside rather than invents.

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arXiv 2508.16153 — original Memento (M-MDP) paper — https://arxiv.org/html/2508.16153v2

The earlier Memento framework introduced a Memory-augmented MDP with a soft-Q case-selection policy and hit 87.88% Pass@3 on GAIA validation — establishing the ‘learn without weight updates’ thesis that Memento 3 now extends from tool-use to world-model synthesis.

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pelles.ai — ‘Recursive Self-Improvement: State of the Evidence’ — https://www.pelles.ai/blog/recursive-self-improvement-state-of-the-evidence

Current bounded self-refinement loops polish existing skills by ~20–34%, but closed-loop systems without new external signals eventually hit information entropy; open-ended RSI likely requires architectural discontinuity that frozen weights cannot deliver.

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Sakana AI — Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS) — https://sakana.ai/mass/

When a model acts as both student and teacher in a homogeneous loop, it risks reinforcing its own blind spots and reward-hacking its own evaluation criteria — a failure mode Memento 3’s single-LLM ‘rulebook fidelity’ check does not obviously escape.

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machinesdoitbetter.ai (TRM explainer) — https://machinesdoitbetter.ai/what-samsungs-trm-does-and-why-it-matters/

TRM achieved 44.6% accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 7.8% on ARC-AGI-2 … surpassing DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3-mini on these specific datasets.

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AI Weekly summary of DeepLoop (Princeton/UCLA, Jul 2026) — https://aiweekly.co/alerts/deeploop-derives-new-depth-scaling-rule-for-looped-transformers

While standard transformers use a scaling exponent of 1/4, looped models require this to increase to 1/2 as the loop count grows … enabling stable training for models that revisit blocks.

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TechTimes on Meta ‘Loop Scaling Laws’ (Oct 2026) — https://www.techtimes.com/articles/328379/20261001/meta-ai-loop-scaling-laws-half-size-looped-moe-matches-larger-ai-models-reasoning-tasks.htm

The compute-optimal loop count is often lower than researchers initially hoped, with many production systems settling on just two to three loops to balance reasoning power with inference speed.

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rekursiv.ai blog (ARC-AGI Pareto record) — https://rekursiv.ai/blog/pushing-limits-arc-agi/

rekursiv.ai set a state-of-the-art Pareto record by achieving 17.5% on ARC-AGI-2 … with inference costs between 16 and 11,600 times lower than its accuracy peers.

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GitHub: ShlokaTomar/TRM-Embeddings-Experiment — https://github.com/ShlokaTomar/TRM-Embeddings-Experiment

Replacing a learned task ID with a blank or never-seen identifier can cause performance to collapse, with cell accuracy dropping by over 60%.

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paulkuo.tw — Looped transformers & monitorability — https://paulkuo.tw/en/articles/looped-transformer-recurrent-depth-monitorability/

Recurrent reasoning can hide the model’s internal logic, making ‘hidden reasoning’ traces harder to interpret than explicit Chain-of-Thought tokens.

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Xiaomi scales RL infra, Memento 3 writes a code world, InfiLoop loops 7M params

TL;DR

Xiaomi spends $3.5M scaling RL for MiMo-V2.6’s agent push

TL;DR

The RL scaling bet

What the audit disputes

Engineering disclosures worth keeping

Memento 3 lets a frozen LLM rewrite its own code world model

TL;DR

Code as model, rulebook as memory

The numbers, and the asterisks

A crowded lineage and a homogeneous loop

InfiLoop scales a 7M looped Transformer to 24,960 steps

TL;DR

Killing the “carry-last” curse

The numbers, and what they’re measured against

Caveats worth stating out loud

Round-ups

Station agents rediscover majority of recent scientific findings autonomously

Evidence graphs let users audit long-horizon agent decisions

AgenticBBO-Bench finds LLM agents beat numerical black-box optimizers

Code-Only-as-Policy replaces runtime VLMs with stateful robot code

TestPrism shows single-reference test evaluation inflates LLM quality scores

LLM agents detect knowledge conflicts but hide the uncertainty

SparseEngine unifies sparse-attention methods for long-context agent inference

Footnotes

Jack Sun, writing.