arXiv Machine Learning By Saksham Bassi, Sharvi Tomar

Geometry of Ordinal Representations in Language Models

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arXiv:2607. 04167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work showed that language models represent character counts on curved 1D manifolds, with attention heads performing geometric transformations to enable computation.

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