Beyond the Clock: Measuring the Value of Adaptive Revision
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arXiv:2609.00874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agentic systems become compound systems, increasingly important decisions move above task execution itself: when should a higher-level controller preserve the strategy guiding another process, and when should it revise it? We study this meta-level control problem in a hierarchical latent reasoner whose manager can retain or replace a commitment governing lower-level computation. Across three precommitted training seeds, learned revision timing produces qualitatively different policies, ranging from an almost deterministic early clock to substa
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- arXiv:2609.00874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agentic systems become compound systems, increasingly important decisions move above task execution itself: when should a higher-level controller preserve the strategy guiding another process, and when should it revise it?
- We study this meta-level control problem in a hierarchical latent reasoner whose manager can retain or replace a commitment governing lower-level computation.
- Across three precommitted training seeds, learned revision timing produces qualitatively different policies, ranging from an almost deterministic early clock to substa
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