WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Reasoning/recursive-loop.md

Recursive Loop — Guardrails and Fix Pattern

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Recursive reasoning is powerful when bounded, but without structural guardrails it often collapses into infinite self-reference.
This page shows how to detect runaway loops and stabilize recursion into meaningful layers.

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Symptoms

Symptom	What you see
Infinite repetition	Output re-states the same phrase or equation
Self-reference collapse	“As I said earlier…” repeated without progress
Meta-loop	Model reasons about its own reasoning instead of the task
Token drain	Long answers with no new content
Citation spin	Same snippet referenced endlessly

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Acceptance Targets

• ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45
• λ convergent across 3 paraphrases and 2 seeds
• Recursion depth ≤ 4 nested layers
• Each recursive frame adds ≥ 1 new fact or citation

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Structural Fixes (Problem Map)

• Wrong-meaning similarity hit
  → embedding-vs-semantic.md

• Citation / snippet mismatch
  → retrieval-traceability.md
  → data-contracts.md

• Recursive drift / entropy rise
  → context-drift.md
  → entropy-collapse.md
  → entropy-overload.md

• Logic collapse under recursion
  → logic-collapse.md

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Fix in 60 Seconds

1. Measure recursion depth

   • Log frame depth at each step.
   • If depth > 4, clamp recursion.

2. Apply ΔS probe

   • Compute ΔS between consecutive recursive outputs.
   • If ΔS < 0.15, stop recursion (no new information).

3. Bridge with BBCR

   • Collapse intermediate steps into one summary frame.
   • Resume reasoning with BBMC anchor locks.

4. Variance clamp

   • If λ diverges between recursive calls, apply BBAM.

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Copy-Paste Probe

I uploaded TXT OS and the WFGY Problem Map.

My reasoning chain entered a recursive loop.
Depth = {n}, ΔS progression = {values}, λ states = {values}.

Tell me:

1. Which layer is looping?
2. Which fix page applies?
3. Minimal steps to clamp recursion and restore ΔS ≤ 0.45.
4. How to verify no infinite loop persists.

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Escalation

• If recursion repeats across 3 seeds → enforce logic-collapse.md.
• If ΔS remains flat → re-embed corpus and verify with chunking-checklist.md.
• If λ oscillates between recursion depths → lock schema ordering with rerankers.md.

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