arxivcs.AIcs.SE2026-07-20
Verify, Repair, Repeat, or Stop? Robust Stopping for Noisy Verify-Repair Loops in LLM Agents
Yitao Wu, Si Shen, Rui Yang, Hong Peng, Bin Hu
Verify-repair loops are a standard means for large language model (LLM) agents to correct faulty plans in code generation, mathematical reasoning, and tool use. When both the verifier and the repairer are noisy, repair can damage already-correct plans, and reported acceptance kee…