@inproceedings{hotta-etal-2026-loop,
    title = "Loop Before You Leap: What Recurrent Depth Can and Cannot Buy in Data-Limited Pretraining",
    author = "Hotta, Daichi  and
      Kobashi, Yohei  and
      Kojima, Takeshi  and
      Iwasawa, Yusuke  and
      Matsuo, Yutaka",
    editor = "Choshen, Leshem  and
      Cotterell, Ryan  and
      Gul, Mustafa Omer  and
      Jumelet, Jaap  and
      Linzen, Tal  and
      Mueller, Aaron  and
      Salhan, Suchir  and
      Shah, Raj Sanjay  and
      Warstadt, Alex  and
      Wilcox, Ethan Gotlieb",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second {B}aby{LM} Workshop",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.babylm-main.43/",
    pages = "543--562",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-475-0"
}