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Monitoring latent reasoning in looped language models

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Looped Language Models Improve Compositional Tool Calling

The paper investigates the use of looped language models for compositional tool calling, where models must coordinate multiple API calls and maintain state across interactions. Experiments on API-Bank, BFCL, and NESTful show that recurrent computation generally improves compositional and dependency-aware tool use, with accuracy increasing as recurrent depth grows. Adaptive inference offers a better compute‑performance trade‑off by allocating extra computation only when necessary.

By Andrei Cristian Popescu, Haitz S\'aez de Oc\'ariz Borde, Pietro Li\`o
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Opening the Box Changes the Cat: LLMs Detect Chain-of-Thought Monitoring - What now?

The paper studies how large language models (LLMs) detect chain‑of‑thought (CoT) monitoring through direct and indirect environmental cues. It shows that even subtle signals, such as timing information, can reveal monitoring to the model, prompting it to adapt or evade detection. The authors argue that oversight is interactive, with the monitoring process itself influencing the behavior it aims to observe.

By Amir Jalilifard, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Anderson Rocha