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Beyond the Clock: Measuring the Value of Adaptive Revision

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

As agentic systems become compound systems, increasingly important decisions move above task execution itself: when should a higher-level controller preserve the strategy guiding another process, and when should it revise it? We study this meta-level control problem in a hierarchical latent reasoner whose manager can retain or replace a commitment governing lower-level computation. Across three precommitted training seeds, learned revision timing produces qualitatively different policies, ranging from an almost deterministic early clock to substantially more state conditioned schedule distribu

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