In this 14-minute MIT Enterprise Initiative seminar, PhD student Philip Schroeder from MIT CSAIL presents his research on "Recursive Reasoning with LLMs and VLMs." Learn about the innovative Thinking Recursively and Dynamically (ThReaD) framework designed to overcome large language models' limitations when handling complex contexts. Discover how ThReaD conceptualizes model generation as an execution thread that can dynamically spawn child threads to handle subtasks like reasoning, information retrieval, and data analysis. Explore the significant performance improvements this approach brings to LLM task solving and question answering by enabling recursive problem decomposition. Schroeder, who works in the Spoken Language Systems Group under Dr. Jim Glass, also demonstrates how this framework enhances reasoning capabilities of vision-language models when processing video content.