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:2608. 01968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models are most often understood through what they do: their benchmark performance, generation quality, or behavior on downstream tasks.
By Kunal Kumar Pant, Nithin Nagaraj
arXiv:2605. 28865v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What does a world model learn from physical exploration, without any linguistic supervision?
By Jiayi Fang
arXiv:2607. 02386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision Transformers have achieved remarkable success across computer vision and language applications, the geometric evolution of their internal representations throughout training remains insufficiently understood.
By Kaustubh Kapil, Kishor P. Upla
arXiv:2607. 03671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Models of complex systems often have many parameters, yet are constrained by far fewer experimentally accessible observables: similar activity can emerge from coordinated parameter changes.
By Ruilin Zhang, Louis Tao, Zhuo-Cheng Xiao
arXiv:2606. 24396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Transformer models function as Dense Associative Memories (DAMs), retrieving knowledge via high-dimensional attractor dynamics driven by the self-attention mechanism \citep{ramsauer2020hopfield, wu2024attention}.
By Kanishk Awadhiya
arXiv:2607. 00089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has produced a rich inventory of component-level analyses that characterise what neural-network components encode and how they interact.
By Hussein Chouman, Wataru Sasaki, Tomokazu Matsui, Hirohiko Suwa, Keiichi Yasumoto
arXiv:2606. 09894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across contemplative, philosophical, and psychological accounts, human consciousness is often described along a similar spectrum, ranging from reactive and self-focused patterns to more integrative and coherent ones.
By Sophie Zhao
arXiv:2608. 06994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) aim to construct a unified architecture capable of understanding world state evolution and guiding to generative motion planning.
By Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang, Sheng Xu, Mingyang Li, Han Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Wenzhong Li, Zhihao Yuan
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
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
arXiv:2602. 22600v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training selects for behavior, not circuitry: many weight configurations can implement the same function.
By Joshua S. Schiffman