arXiv Machine Learning By Alexander Boesgaard Lorup

Stage-Replay Divergence Follows the KV Cache: Fixed-Prefix Precision Controls and Bidirectional Cache Transplantation

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arXiv:2607. 28495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stage-replay diagnostics reconstruct intermediate token prefixes and treat fresh-prefill continuation as continuation from the decoder state that originally reached the prefix.

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SCIT: Testing Causal Cache Carriers in Latent Chain-of-Thought Models

SCIT (Suffix Cache Interchange Test) is a causal protocol designed to identify which transformer components carry counterfactual computations in latent chain-of-thought models. By constructing exact source‑recipient counterfactuals and applying sufficiency tests, K/V splits, hidden‑state controls, and semantic source controls, SCIT demonstrates that counterfactual arithmetic primarily transfers through value‑cache suffix trajectories rather than hidden states or keys. The method reveals carrier‑regime shifts across different GPT‑2 checkpoints, providing a cache‑level diagnostic and a competence‑gated carrier map for arithmetic mechanisms.

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