arXiv:2607. 00510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowing which training examples drive outputs is fundamental to auditing, correcting, and understanding language models, yet for modern LLMs this remains expensive, approximate, and largely post-hoc.
arXiv:2602. 11852v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While state-of-the-art language models (LMs) surpass most humans in certain domains, their reasoning remains largely opaque, reducing trust and increasing the risk of deception and hallucination.
arXiv:2609.07876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent methods in language model interpretability employ techniques such as sparse autoencoders to decompose residual stream contributions into linea...
arXiv:2601. 22594v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The high-level concepts that a neural network uses to perform computation need not be aligned to individual neurons (Smolensky, 1986).
arXiv:2607. 20652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are thought to exhibit the phenomenon of superposition, representing many more features than dimensions in their residual streams.
arXiv:2610.00673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Looped language models increase effective depth by repeatedly applying a shared block of layers, but existing large-scale recipes require multi-stage...
arXiv:2609.37974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate text by unmasking several tokens per step, but they are trained and sampled under different conditions. The m...
The article "The Life of a Token: from Words to Bits on the Wire" explores how large language models convert text into network traffic during training. It traces the transformation from words to tokens, then to vectors, and finally to binary streams that traverse high‑performance computing systems. Using Dante’s Divine Comedy as a case study, the tutorial examines how tokenization, embeddings, and parallelization affect the volume, structure, and timing of data exchanged across the network, and provides analytical traffic models and numerical examples to clarify the communication demands of LLM training.
arXiv:2607. 22577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling large language models (LLMs) has driven their success, yet dense Transformers couple capacity and computation: every parameter is activated for every token, making training and inference costs grow linearly with model size-a critical bottleneck as models approach trillion-parameter regimes.
arXiv:2605.27033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are comprised of billions of parameters arranged in deep and wide computational graphs, but it is no...
arXiv:2606. 12117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmark scores often misrepresent a large language model's (LLM's) knowledge, because they rely, e.
arXiv:2410. 13077v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) traditionally rely on final-layer loss for finetuning and final-layer representations for predictions, potentially overlooking the predictive power embedded in late layers.
arXiv:2606. 11722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finding interpretable directions in language-model representations is critical for understanding and controlling model behavior.