About this repository — Interim Report & Zenodo publication
This repository contains the research materials for "Between Hidden States and Control: Hidden-State Signals in Iterative LLM Repair" — an independent empirical investigation into whether minimal, non-learned signals derived from hidden states during inference can serve as an internal value function in LLMs.
Full report (citable, with DOI): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18941566
What's in this repo:
Between_Hidden_States_and_Control_Interim_Report.pdf— full 13-page interim report covering all 10 experimental phasesMVF_Supplementary_Materials.zip— experiment protocol, result files, core scripts
Core finding: Hidden-state cosine similarity at Layer 27 / Stride 50 detects semantic stagnation that text-based loop detectors miss. However, coherence alone is not sufficient as a standalone actuator — the problem has shifted from signal discovery to policy design.
If you're working on mechanistic interpretability, inference control, or agentic code systems, feedback and questions are very welcome here.