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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 Chained Recursive Language Models (Chained RLM), an architecture for multi-iteration reasoning in large language models (LLMs). It addresses the difficulty in tasks requiring extraction, counting, ordering, or multi-hop reasoning by breaking down the context into partial tasks and using a fresh reasoning root in each iteration. The model can inspect, correct, and extend intermediate artifacts from previous iterations.

What the Document Says

  • The paper introduces Chained Recursive Language Models (Chained RLM).
  • Each iteration of Chained RLM uses the same underlying model as a fresh reasoning root.
  • The model receives a compact plain-text summary, plain-text blackboard, and some durable task-specific artifacts from previous iterations.
  • The purpose is to manage context by dividing it into partial tasks.
  • In each iteration, intermediate artifacts can be inspected, corrected, and extended.
  • The evaluation protocol for this system is described in the paper.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • Chained Recursive Language Models (Chained RLM)
  • large language models (LLMs)
  • multi-iteration reasoning
  • context management
  • intermediate artifacts

Claims Made by the Document

  • Chained RLM improves accuracy in tasks requiring extraction, counting, ordering, or multi-hop reasoning.

Evidence Used

  • The paper describes 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.