Papers with introspective LLMs
Efficient Test-Time Scaling of Multi-Step Reasoning by Probing Internal States of Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Jingwei Ni, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Tianyi Wu, Mubashara Akhtar, Jiaheng Zhang, Elliott Ash, Markus Leippold, Timothy Baldwin, See-Kiong Ng, Artem Shelmanov, Mrinmaya Sachan
| Challenge: | Existing verification approaches, such as Process Reward Models, are computationally expensive and limited to specific domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a transformer-based probe that uses internal states of frozen LLMs to estimate credibility of reasoning steps during generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed probes match or exceed PRMs that are up to 810 larger. |