Self-Critique

Talking to Yourself, but Make It Useful: Intrinsic Self‑Critique in LLM Planning

“Please double-check your work” is one of the least expensive quality-control systems ever invented. It is also one of the least dependable. A person who overlooked a constraint the first time may overlook it again. A language model is no different, except that it can produce a longer and more persuasive explanation of why the overlooked constraint was never important. ...

Stepwise Think-Critique: Teaching LLMs to Doubt Themselves (Productively)

The useful part of doubt is timing Doubt is not useful after the invoice is paid, the client report is sent, or the model has already produced a confident wrong answer with twelve decorative paragraphs of reasoning. At that point, “let us verify” becomes less like quality control and more like archaeology. ...