{
  "id": "2610.16427",
  "title": "Resample the Answer: Where to Spend Test-Time Compute in Recursive Reasoning",
  "authors": "Maxime Illouz",
  "first_public": "2026-10-12",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.16427",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16427",
  "lens": [
    "recurrent",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "recurrent",
    "search"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "scaling",
    "interpretability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Separately perturbs the answer state and the reasoning state of a recursive puzzle solver to study where extra search is useful. Uses the model's halting prediction to trigger restarts that resample the answer state.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Maxime Illouz"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-12",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.16427/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.16427/citation.bib",
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