arXiv Machine Learning

Expert-Aware Causal Tracing of Factual Recall in Sparse MoE Language Models

arXiv:2606. 03780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal tracing of factual recall has been studied predominantly in dense transformer language models, where interventions localize information flow to layers or feed-forward modules.

arXiv AI
Jul 24

Knowledge Injection Exists in MoE? Exploring Expert-Aware Contrast Decoding in MoE for Mitigating LLMs'Hallucinations

arXiv:2607. 20426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM hallucination mitigation methods, including prompt engineering and model optimization, either hardly alter models'internal knowledge or have poor cross-domain generalization.

By Xinyue Fang, Zhiliang Tian, Zhen Huang, Ziyi Pan, Zhihua Wen, Xi Wang, Quntian Fang, Dongsheng Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

From Observation to Intervention: A Causal Audit of Expert Importance in Mixture-of-Experts Models

arXiv:2606. 10703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretability methods routinely use population-level summary statistics over observed model behaviour to license claims about the effects of targeted interventions on specific computations; in Pearl's terms, they treat rung-1 associational evidence as if it supported rung-2 interventional conclusions, a move whose validity is rarely tested.

By Leonard Engmann, Christian Medeiros Adriano, Holger Giese
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Beyond the Trace: Coupling an Interpretable Reasoning-State Readout to Native MoE Routing

The paper introduces a two‑level readout for mixture‑of‑experts reasoning models. First, it compresses the model’s internal reasoning states into a 64‑dimensional semantic frame (J64) that reveals process dynamics beyond the emitted trace. Second, it reconstructs this frame from native expert‑routing statistics (R64), achieving high correlation and preserving most predictive gains while enabling low‑overhead, test‑time decision making.

By Kang Chen, Sihan Zhao, Yixin Cao, Yugang Jiang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

Trace as State: Reasoning Traces as Conditional States for Long-Context Transformers

The paper introduces "Trace as State," a method that places collected reasoning traces before a long-context block in a transformer, allowing earlier derived information to guide rereading. Experiments across three models and datasets show that this approach consistently outperforms a control where traces are appended after the context, achieving significant accuracy gains on tasks such as GraphWalks Parents and GLM-5.2. The results demonstrate that positioning traces before the context can enhance long-context reasoning while preserving the causal transformer architecture.

By Xu Zou, Jie Tang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

Beyond the Trace: Coupling an Interpretable Reasoning-State Readout to Native MoE Routing

The paper introduces a two‑level internal readout for mixture‑of‑experts reasoning models. First, it compresses the model’s reasoning states into a 64‑axis semantic frame (J64) that reveals process states not captured by the emitted trace, improving held‑out AUC by 0.096–0.135. Second, it reconstructs this frame from native expert‑routing statistics (R64), achieving high correlation with J64 and preserving most of its predictive gain while enabling low‑overhead, test‑time decision making and improved routing policies.