Steering Recurrent Reasoners at Inference Time with Readout Feedback
Recurrent models, which repeatedly update latent states with shared computation blocks, have emerged as powerful architectures for solving complex reasoning tasks. Existing inference-time methods scale computation by running more steps or sampling more trajectories, but ignore information revealed within each trajectory. Here we show that recurrent models can be improved at inference time by using their own readout probabilities to steer latent dynamics without retraining. We introduce Readout Feedback (RoFB), a test-time intervention that converts intermediate predictions into token-wise pairwise coupling forces injected into the latent dynamics. Across three recurrent models (AKOrN, Itr...
| Authors | Shunsuke Kamiya, Masanori Koyama, Seongcheol Jeong et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 25 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 October 2026 |
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