Exact Feedback Is Not Control: Evaluating Text-based Closed-Loop Revision in LLMs

arXiv:2609.28150 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/kevinjiang0121-cyber/exact-feedback-code

Terminology

• Verifier — 25× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Patching — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Instruction Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• System Identification — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Taxonomy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Thinking mode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size
• ChatGLM: A Family of Large Language Models from GLM-130B to GLM-4 All Tools
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching
• Do Language Models Converge to Themselves? Recursive Self-Refinement as Textual Relaxation
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance

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