arXiv Machine Learning

One mechanism for many mental spaces: a shared router over a value slot in language models

arXiv:2607. 10248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language builds discourse contexts other than the actual: a painting, a belief, a memory, a hypothetical.

arXiv AI
Jul 20

Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models

arXiv:2607. 15495v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Out of everything the human brain processes, only a small fraction is consciously accessible, in the sense of being available for verbal report, deliberate control, and flexible reasoning.

By Wes Gurnee, Nicholas Sofroniew, Adam Pearce, Mateusz Piotrowski, Isaac Kauvar, Runjin Chen, Anna Soligo, Paul Bogdan, Euan Ong, Rowan Wang, Ben Thompson, David Abrahams, Subhash Kantamneni, Emmanuel Ameisen, Joshua Batson, Jack Lindsey
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Fluid Reasoning Representations

arXiv:2602. 04843v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier large language models increasingly solve complex tasks involving abstract concepts through extended test-time thinking.

By Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Arth Singh, Alessandro Stolfo, Arthur Conmy, Mrinmaya Sachan, Zhijing Jin
arXiv AI
Jun 8

The Latent Space: Foundation, Evolution, Mechanism, Ability, and Outlook

arXiv:2604. 02029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Latent space is rapidly emerging as a native substrate for language-based models.

By Xinlei Yu, Zhangquan Chen, Yongbo He, Tianyu Fu, Guanting Dong, Cheng Yang, Chengming Xu, Yue Ma, Xiaobin Hu, Zhe Cao, Jie Xu, Guibin Zhang, Jiale Tao, Jiayi Zhang, Siyuan Ma, Kaituo Feng, Haojie Huang, Youxing Li, Ronghao Chen, Huacan Wang, Chenglin Wu, Zikun Su, Xiaogang Xu, Kelu Yao, Kun Wang, Chen Gao, Yue Liao, Ruqi Huang, Tao Jin, Zhucun Xue, Cheng Tan, Jiangning Zhang, Wenqi Ren, Yanwei Fu, Yong Liu, Yu Wang, Xiangyu Yue, Yu-Gang Jiang, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change

arXiv:2604. 19791v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attitude change - the process by which individuals revise their evaluative stances - has been explained by a set of influential but competing verbal theories.

By Jayd Matyas, William A. Cunningham, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Dean Mobbs, Edgar A. Du\'e\~nez-Guzm\'an, Joel Z. Leibo