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Gathered, Not Admitted: How Attention Brings a Latent Variable into Verbalizable Form

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arXiv:2608. 15022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models hold latent quantities in a form they can report on, and more of a quantity is present in that form when the task requires reusing it flexibly.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Self-Attention as Transport: Limits of Symmetric Spectral Diagnostics

arXiv:2605. 04893v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When a language model processes a hallucinated response, its attention routing tends to fail in one of two shapes: over-concentrating on a narrow set of positions, or spreading so diffusely that relevance is diluted, and the shape of the failure carries diagnostic signal.

By Dominik Dahlem, Diego Maniloff, Mac Misiura