AI Training Manager: Bounded Closed-Loop Control of Adaptive Training Recipes

We present the AI Training Manager, a bounded LLM-based metacognitive monitoring-and-control layer for machine-learning training. The Manager asynchronously observes structured telemetry from an active training run, assesses the current training regime, and selects adaptive interventions through a constrained, deterministically verified action interface. We evaluate the feasibility of this architecture using deliberately induced, interpretable failure modes in supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. For supervised learning, we induce a multi-objective overfitting failure in a GPT-2-style model trained on TinyStories. The Manager prevents the resulting late-run validation collapse, reducing final validation loss by 54.3% relative to the same stressed recipe. For reinforcement learning, we study robotic reaching under opposing multifactor stress regimes. In a conservative regime, the Manager raises final deterministic safe success from 0.413 to 0.705. In an aggressive regime, it raises safe success from 0.121 to 0.764. The same Manager instructions and action surface are used in both regimes. These results suggest that bounded LLM reasoning can provide a practical metacognitive control layer over ongoing learning processes.