@article{llmsencodetheirfailurespredictingsuccess, title = {LLMs Encode Their Failures: Predicting Success from Pre-Generation Activations}, author = {William Lugoloobi and Thomas Foster and William Bankes and Chris Russell}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.09924}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09924}, }