Agents2026-06-26 · source-backed
Semantic early-stopping replaces the arbitrary `max_iterations` kill-switch.
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This paper targets the near-universal iteration cap in Writer/Critic loops, calling it a syntactic stop that over-spends on easy inputs and truncates hard ones. The fix halts when consecutive draft embeddings stop changing in meaning (cosine distance with a patience window) plus a quality check. Cost tied to convergence instead of a guessed count. If you run iterative refinement loops, this is directly usable today.
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