--- title: [2512.24601] Recursive Language Models | daily.dev description: Recursive Language Models (RLMs) enable LLMs to process prompts far exceeding their context window limits by treating long inputs as external environments. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2512-24601-recursive-language-models-k5s8xjxqv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: [2512.24601] Recursive Language Models | daily.dev og:description: Recursive Language Models (RLMs) enable LLMs to process prompts far exceeding their context window limits by treating long inputs as external environments. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2512-24601-recursive-language-models-k5s8xjxqv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K5s8XjXQv.png og:image:alt: [2512.24601] Recursive Language Models og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # [2512.24601] Recursive Language Models **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Recursive Language Models (RLMs) enable LLMs to process prompts far exceeding their context window limits by treating long inputs as external environments. The model programmatically examines, decomposes, and recursively processes prompt snippets. This inference-time scaling strategy handles inputs up to 100x beyond context windows while outperforming base LLMs and existing long-context approaches across four tasks, maintaining comparable or lower costs per query. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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