arXiv:2603.18908v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Independently trained language models often learn compatible late-stage representations, despite differences in training objectives, architectures,...
By Matt Gorbett, Suman Jana
arXiv:2608. 05164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Independently trained large language models may develop shared internal representations of semantic concepts despite architectural differences -- but whether this geometric similarity has functional consequences for cross-model behavioural control remains untested.
By Ayushi Agarwal
Fine‑tuning reshapes internal representations of large language models, affecting attention patterns and layer‑wise activations. The study shows that components identified by EAP as important for task performance cluster in specific layers, yet these layers do not align with those undergoing the largest representational changes. Additionally, overlapping EAP components across different tasks do not guarantee cross‑task transfer and can even degrade performance when tasks differ in nature.
By Lingfang Li, Procheta Sen, Shubham Das, Danushka Bollegala
arXiv:2605.30381v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: When a language model is fine-tuned to produce systematically incorrect responses, does this training leave a structured, linearly recoverabl...
By Vahideh Zolfaghari
arXiv:2608. 06111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positional embeddings (PE) in Transformers encode token distance and order but are largely agnostic to \textit{syntactic structure}.
By Haris Riaz, Hyungji Kim, Mihai Surdeanu
arXiv:2609.23065v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) can sound plausible yet be unfaithful to the model's underlying reasoning. Most prior work probes CoT faithfulness through inp...
By Qianli Wang, Yilong Wang, Dennis Wei, Jingyi Sun, Simon Ostermann, Pepa Atanasova, Nils Feldhus
REALM is a retrospective knowledge distillation framework that enables causal decoding of behavior from local field potentials (LFPs). It trains a bidirectional Mamba‑2 teacher on multi‑session data using continuous masked autoencoding, then distills its representations into a compact causal student model. The resulting LFP‑only decoder achieves the highest mean accuracy among compared methods, surpassing state‑of‑the‑art baselines while using fewer parameters and less pretraining time.
By Peicheng Wu, Zhenyu Bu, Runze Ma, Lin Du
arXiv:2601. 22947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) generate text by unmasking tokens in parallel and have recently emerged as alternatives to autoregressive language models.
By Mengyu Ye, Keito Kudo, Ryosuke Takahashi, Jun Suzuki
arXiv:2606. 06712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the transformation of autoregressive models (ARLMs) into diffusion language models (DLMs).
By Xingyu Su, Jacob Helwig, Shubham Parashar, Atharv Chagi, Lakshmi Jotsna, Degui Zhi, James Caverlee, Dileep Kalathil, Shuiwang Ji
arXiv:2606. 00091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have reshaped self-supervised representation learning in vision.
By Sangdae Nam
arXiv:2608. 08829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering edits the behaviour of a frozen language model by adding a learned vector to its residual stream, and current practice fixes the injection layers globally per task.
By Muhammad Faishal Adly Nelwan, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono
arXiv:2601.12075v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Language models used in retrieval-augmented settings must arbitrate between parametric knowledge stored in their weights and contextual information...
By Mehrdad Farahani, Franziska Penzkofer, Richard Johansson