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Iterate to Accelerate: A Unified Framework for Iterative Reasoning and Feedback Convergence

Machine Learning 2025-02-07 v1

Abstract

We introduce a unified framework for iterative reasoning that leverages non-Euclidean geometry via Bregman divergences, higher-order operator averaging, and adaptive feedback mechanisms. Our analysis establishes that, under mild smoothness and contractivity assumptions, a generalized update scheme not only unifies classical methods such as mirror descent and dynamic programming but also captures modern chain-of-thought reasoning processes in large language models. In particular, we prove that our accelerated iterative update achieves an O(1/t2)O(1/t^2) convergence rate in the absence of persistent perturbations, and we further demonstrate that feedback (iterative) architectures are necessary to approximate certain fixed-point functions efficiently. These theoretical insights bridge classical acceleration techniques with contemporary applications in neural computation and optimization.

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@article{arxiv.2502.03787,
  title  = {Iterate to Accelerate: A Unified Framework for Iterative Reasoning and Feedback Convergence},
  author = {Jacob Fein-Ashley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.03787},
  year   = {2025}
}
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