arXiv Machine Learning

Trajectory Geometry of Transformer Representations Across Layers

arXiv:2606. 09287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how transformer representations evolve across layers, not merely what they encode, remains an open problem in mechanistic interpretability.

arXiv AI
Jun 3

Decomposing how prompting steers behavior

arXiv:2606. 03093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompting steers large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) without weight updates, but it remains unclear how instruction changes reshape internal representations to produce behavior.

By Fan L. Cheng, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Hierarchical Latent Structures in Data Generation Process Unify Mechanistic Phenomena across Scale

arXiv:2603. 06592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contemporary studies in mechanistic interpretability have uncovered many puzzling phenomena in the neural information processing of Transformer-based language models, such as induction heads, function vectors, and the Hydra effect.

By Jonas Rohweder, Subhabrata Dutta, Iryna Gurevych