arXiv:2607. 04167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work showed that language models represent character counts on curved 1D manifolds, with attention heads performing geometric transformations to enable computation.
Recent work showed that language models represent character counts on curved 1D manifolds, with attention heads performing geometric transformations to enable computation. We test whether this generalizes across four ordinal tasks (bracket depth, indentation, table position, numeric magnitude) in Gemma-2-2B, Gemma-2-9B, and Qwen3-4B.
arXiv:2509. 10534v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The attention mechanism in a Transformer architecture matches key to query based on both content -- the what -- and position in a sequence -- the where.
arXiv:2601. 22402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) have become the standard for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their ability to encode relative positions through geometric rotation.
arXiv:2510. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate how embedding dimension affects the emergence of an internal "world model" in a transformer trained with reinforcement learning to perform bubble-sort-style adjacent swaps.
arXiv:2602. 15029v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The internal representations learned by language models consistently exhibit striking geometric structure: calendar months organize into a circle, historical years form a smooth one-dimensional manifold, and cities' latitudes and longitudes can be decoded using a linear probe.
arXiv:2606. 01269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transitive inference is the challenge of inferring that A < C from knowing only adjacent relations (A < B, B < C).
arXiv:2607. 07047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the geometric structure of pre-trained language model embeddings matters for interpretability and safety.
arXiv:2511. 21594v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve state-of-the-art results across many natural language tasks, but their internal mechanisms remain difficult to interpret.
arXiv:2607. 02386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision Transformers have achieved remarkable success across computer vision and language applications, the geometric evolution of their internal representations throughout training remains insufficiently understood.
arXiv:2606. 09287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how transformer representations evolve across layers, not merely what they encode, remains an open problem in mechanistic interpretability.
arXiv:2511. 17388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Position information is essential for language modeling.
arXiv:2606. 23885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representation alignment has emerged as an effective approach to improve Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by regularizing their internal representations toward those of an external vision encoder.