Removing the left context from a causal language model reveals a useful kind of boundary: an edge where the model processes the same right-hand tokens with little change. We turn this observation into prefix-removal probing and introduce Right Reset (RR), which measures preservation of the right-hand hidden-state trajectory.
arXiv:2608. 04021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloze-style probes that vary how often a target token appears implicitly assume that more copies of a target affect prediction the same way regardless of where the readout slot sits.
By Han-yu Wang
arXiv:2606. 28876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language models often conflate two different goals: compressing history into an efficient state, and maintaining reliable long-term memory.
By Junyi Zou, Avrova Donz
arXiv:2607. 18302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models are least accurate at the beginning of a sequence, where little context forces reliance on a generic pretraining prior.
By Ye Qiao
arXiv:2607. 01792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While decoder-only LLMs excel at a vast array of natural language tasks, it suffers from an asymmetric information flow induced by causal attention: later tokens are richer in contextual grounding than earlier ones.
By Andikawati P Widjaja, Yongjun Kim, Hyounghun Kim, Jaeho Lee
arXiv:2606. 17034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-hoc context erasing over the KV cache is challenging because a local edit has a global consequence: once a span has been processed, its influence propagates into the cached states of all subsequent tokens.
By Mufei Li, Shikun Liu, Dongqi Fu, Haoyu Wang, Yinglong Xia, Hong Li, Hong Yan, Pan Li
arXiv:2608. 11797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging by task arithmetic works until it doesn't, and the field diagnoses why with magnitudes: layerwise representation bias, deviations from cross-task linearity, parameter overlap.
By Chencheng Zhu
arXiv:2608. 14681v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Words recur constantly in natural language use, yet it remains unclear whether language models reactivate prior representations or re-evaluate repeated words afresh, and whether post-training changes this default behavior.
By Jinglei Ren, Yuyue Wang
arXiv:2605. 09239v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models fail at counting how many times a word repeats in a list, even though they perform well on far harder reasoning tasks.
By Sohan Venkatesh
arXiv:2606. 28876v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study memory-managed long-context attention: explicit bounded memory with a learned query-independent writer, lifecycle control, query-aware reading, calibrated sparse fallback, and frozen-LLM generation from raw evidence.
By Junyi Zou, Avrova Donz
arXiv:2607. 20433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While language models remain frozen at their training state, the world evolves continuously.
By Jea Kwon, Jiwon Kim, Dong-kyum Kim, Meeyoung Cha
arXiv:2607. 16254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FFNs are often treated as parametric memories.
By Zhibo Yang