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6arXiv · cs.CL·Jun 1, 2026·source ↗

Question-Answering as Hidden State Probing for Test-Time Reasoning Intervention

This paper proposes using question-asking as an inference-time intervention to surface information about an LLM's hidden state during chain-of-thought reasoning. The authors train a probe on a student model's hidden states before and after question generation, finding it predictive of final answer correctness even before the teacher responds—suggesting self-diagnosis during question generation carries meaningful signal. They frame question-asking as a sequential decision problem with a gating policy, but find a gap between detection and recovery: interventions are as likely to harm correct trajectories as to fix incorrect ones. The results have implications for the limits of LLM self-refinement under uncertainty.

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