2606.02821 Sutra: Tensor-Op RNNs as a Compilation Target for Vector Symbolic Architectures
**Sutra** is a typed, purely functional programming language whose compiled forward pass is a PyTorch neural network. The compiler beta-reduces the whole program — primitives, control flow, string I/O — to a single substrate-pure tensor-op dataflow graph over a frozen embedding substrate (every operation is a tensor op; the language has no scalar-readout escape hatch).