arXiv AI By Xuening Wu, Qianya Xu, Yanlan Kang, Zeping Chen, Yubin Liu, Shenqin Yin

Do Language Models Converge to Themselves? Recursive Self-Refinement as Textual Relaxation

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arXiv:2607. 22653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in recursive refinement workflows, where an initial draft is repeatedly revised by the same model.

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