doomed-from-the-start-early-abort-of-llm-agent-episodes-via-a-recall-controlled-probe-cascade-0d1f0ac0·1 events·first seen Aliases: Doomed from the Start: Early Abort of LLM Agent Episodes via a Recall-Controlled Probe Cascade
A new arXiv paper introduces a method to detect doomed LLM agent episodes early by probing internal hidden-state activations, rather than waiting for observable failure. The approach uses a cascade of calibrated per-round gates with recall budgets, guaranteeing that eventually-successful episodes survive at a user-specified rate. On TextCraft with Qwen-2.5-7B and Llama-3.2-3B, the cascade saves 37–47% of inference compute at a 90% recall target, outperforming behavior-only baselines by roughly 2x. The work provides both a practical deployment mechanism and theoretical guidance on sample complexity for certifying high recall targets.