arXiv:2608. 10251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A transformer's answer lives on one axis: the direction its unembedding reads.
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The paper investigates how many transformer components influence a token prediction by measuring the absolute contribution of each unit and channel to the logit. It finds that thousands of components contribute to a single prediction, yet a small subset—often just dozens—carries the majority of the predictive mass. Across models ranging from 124 M to 7 B parameters, the proportion of the model involved in a prediction remains around one to three percent, independent of size, and the study demonstrates that specific components can be directly read and written to modify model behavior without additional training.
arXiv:2606. 07559v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a language model often fails silently when its correct completion must outrank a near-synonym competitor.
arXiv:2606. 07559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a language model on contexts whose correct completion has a near-synonym competitor often fails silently.
arXiv:2607. 08946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A transformer can be built from operators that are legible by construction -- bounded, named units that read as fuzzy set operations rather than dense activations -- but legibility must be pressed for during training, and the pressure has a failure mode.
arXiv:2606. 24975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: PaTH Attention showed that replacing RoPE's position-indexed rotations with accumulated data-dependent Householder reflections yields strong length extrapolation, though performance degrades at extreme context lengths.
arXiv:2609. 18145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention pays, at every layer and for every input, the cost of searching for whom to connect.