A Financial Brain Scan of the LLM
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The paper "Illusory Pattern Perception Drives Spurious Inference in Large Language Models" reports that large language models (LLMs) exhibit a cognitive bias similar to humans’ tendency to see patterns where none exist. By adapting classic psychological experiments to three tasks, the authors find that LLMs often over‑associate frequent positive attributes with majority groups or large organizations and are prone to constructing causal narratives from ambiguous events. Using a Sparse Autoencoder‑based interpretability framework, the study links these illusory perceptions to holistic frequency perception and analytic cognitive orientation within the models.
arXiv:2601.08058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting often improves the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs), but the internal signal that trigg...
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are proposed to extract numerous features from large language model (LLM) representations, yet explaining these features still relies primarily on external observation. This reliance leads to superficial explanations inferred from observed model behavior and computational inefficiency from collecting such behavioral evidence at scale.
arXiv:2609.01322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many settings, studying causal questions based on text data requires adjusting for confounding information within texts. Yet there is a tradeoff i...
In many settings, studying causal questions based on text data requires adjusting for confounding information within texts. Yet there is a tradeoff in constructing text representations for adjustment:...
arXiv:2604. 16197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data attribution and valuation are critical for understanding data-model synergy for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing gradient-based methods suffer from scalability challenges on LLMs.