arXiv:2606. 19542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are commonly aligned through supervised fine-tuning, yet little is known about how their internal representations evolve during this process.
By Naman Malhotra, Jay Ambadkar, Abhinav Gupta, Kushal Kasivel, Abbas Schwarz, Kamillo Ferry, Anthea Monod
arXiv:2606. 24543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are traditionally viewed as autoregressive generators.
By Kanishk Awadhiya
arXiv:2605. 28865v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What does a world model learn from physical exploration, without any linguistic supervision?
By Jiayi Fang
Neural Collapse predicts that balanced one-hot classification pushes model representations to be equally far from each other; a symmetric configuration that depends only on the output label and ignores any semantic similarity in the inputs. This creates a puzzle: next-token prediction language models are trained predominantly (as context length increases) with one-hot labels: the same context is very unlikely to appear twice in training with different labels.
arXiv:2607. 12195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic memory retrieval can be conceptualized as navigation through conceptual space.
By Gabriel Paris-Colombo, Rodrigo M. Cabral-Carvalho, Felipe D. Toro-Hern\'andez
How concepts are represented in neural networks is a fundamental question in machine learning. The dominant view treats concept representations as stationary geometric objects.
arXiv:2606. 24396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Transformer models function as Dense Associative Memories (DAMs), retrieving knowledge via high-dimensional attractor dynamics driven by the self-attention mechanism \citep{ramsauer2020hopfield, wu2024attention}.
By Kanishk Awadhiya
arXiv:2606. 26749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural Collapse predicts that balanced one-hot classification pushes model representations to be equally far from each other; a symmetric configuration that depends only on the output label and ignores any semantic similarity in the inputs.
By Yize Zhao, Isabel Papadimitriou, Christos Thrampoulidis
arXiv:2608. 07525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hallucination remains a persistent challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), severely limiting their reliability in high-stakes applications.
By Pengfei Zhou, Jiajun Song, Zhiwei Tang, Yixing Ma, Xiaopeng Peng, Donghui Si, Yuhang Xu, Huiqi Song, Yiyuan Miao, Yichen Qian, Weihua Chen, Wangbo Zhao, Bohan Zhuang, Jiasheng Tang, Yang You
Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have emerged as a distinct paradigm for sequence generation. As MDLMs become diverse in capabilities and knowledge coverage, an important question is how to combine their knowledge.
arXiv:2608. 02139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) capable of self-improvement require not only effective policy optimization, but also a principled mechanism for transforming transient interaction experience into persistent model capabilities.
By Shijie Ren, Xiting Wang, Meng Li, Yujie Guo, Yunhang Yao, Ziheng Peng, Xunlong Wang, Yuetan Chen, Haoyang Zhou, Yunlong Liang, Fandong Meng
arXiv:2607. 04525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How concepts are represented in neural networks is a fundamental question in machine learning.
By Zhimin Hu, Lanhao Niu, Sashank Varma