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Chained Recursive Language Models for Multi-Iteration Reasoning

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arXiv

arxiv.org/abs/2608.05124v1

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The paper proposes a new architecture for large language models called Chained Recursive Language Models (Chained RLM). This architecture is designed to handle long context reasoning tasks that require extraction, counting, ordering, or multi-hop reasoning by breaking down the inference response into partial tasks. Each task is handled by a fresh instance of the same model, which receives a summary, a blackboard, and some durable artifacts from its predecessor roots. The goal is to manage context effectively and reduce the impact of early mistakes.

What the Document Says

  • The paper introduces Chained Recursive Language Models (Chained RLM), an architecture for large language models.
  • Each instance in this model is a fresh reasoning root that receives the original problem, context, summary, blackboard, and durable artifacts from its predecessor roots.
  • The idea is to manage the context by breaking down the response into partial tasks.
  • In each staged computation, intermediate artifacts can be inspected, corrected, and extended by a later fresh inference by the same model.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • Chained Recursive Language Models
  • large language models
  • inference-time architecture

Claims Made by the Document

  • The proposed Chained RLM architecture effectively manages context in long context reasoning tasks.
  • Fresh-context artifact continuation provides a measurable gain in accuracy over direct LLM answering even with recursive tool-calling.

Evidence Used

  • Description of the system model, handoff mechanism, artifact workspace, and evaluation protocol for Chained RLM

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Raw Abstract / Excerpt

Long context reasoning in large language models (LLMs) is usually constrained by the fact that a single inference trajectory has to simultaneously explore the context, store intermediate state, verify evidence, and produce the final answer. This becomes particularly difficult in tasks that require extraction, counting, ordering, or multi-hop reasoning, where an early mistake can propagate until the final response. In this work, we propose Chained Recursive Language Models (Chained RLM), an inference-time architecture, in which the same underlying model is called repeatedly as a sequence of fresh reasoning roots. Each root receives the original problem and context, but does not inherit the full conversational history. Instead, it receives a compact plain-text summary, a plain-text blackboard, and some durable task-specific artifacts written by predecessor roots. The motivation is to manage the context by chopping into partial tasks rather than one large inference response; in each staged computation, intermediate artifacts can be inspected, corrected, and extended by a later fresh inference by the same model. We describe the system model, handoff mechanism, artifact workspace, and evaluation protocol for this system. We study when fresh-context artifact continuation gives a measurable gain in accuracy over direct LLM answering even with recursive tool-calling.