arXiv AI

Interpreting Black-Box Large Language Models with Sentence-Level Energy Landscapes

arXiv:2608. 02879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs) accessed strictly through closed APIs has created a critical challenge for responsible deployment: a fundamental lack of interpretability.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

Scaling Inherently Interpretable Language Models

arXiv:2608. 07594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretability is often treated as a tax on capability: language models are trained as opaque systems, then explained after the fact, with methods whose reliability is difficult to establish.

By Guide Labs Team, Andreas Madsen, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Giang Nguyen, Isaac Plant, Muawiz Chaudhary, Nathaniel Monson, Saqib Azim, Zhichen Guo, Julius Adebayo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 17

Explaining Attention with Program Synthesis

A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions. In this paper, we propose an approach for approximating the behavior of components of deep networks with executable programs.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

Learning a Single Token to Replace Long System Prompts in LLMs

arXiv:2511.23271v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long system prompts are widely used to steer Large Language Models (LLMs), but repeatedly processing them at inference time is inefficient and cons...

By Jiancheng Dong, Pengyue Jia, Jingyu Peng, Maolin Wang, Yuhao Wang, Lixin Su, Xin Sun, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Xiangyu Zhao
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Beyond Prompt Engineering: A Systematic Analysis of Prompt Lexical Sensitivity and Its Impacts on Quality

The paper investigates how small lexical changes in prompts can cause large performance swings in large language models. Using a dataset of 132,000 prompt variants, the authors uncover a scaling law linking higher average task performance to lower variance and greater robustness. They identify domain-specific terminology and explicit action directives as key linguistic factors that stabilize prompts, and propose an automated Prompt-Refining Agent that reduces performance variance by 40.7% in code generation while maintaining or improving mean performance.

By Qipeng Xie, Zi Liang, Jiafei Wu, Yufei Chen, Weizheng Wang, Wenao Ma, Zhong Ming, Haiqin Yang, Kaishun Wu