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arXiv Computation and Language By Samuele Vallisa, Federico Ravenda, Claudio Palominos, Rui He, Andrea Raballo, Antonietta Mira, Philipp Homan, Wolfram Hinzen

The Changing Geometry of Grammar: Dimensionality and Neighborhood Reorganization across Transformer Layers

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The paper studies how transformer representations evolve across layers by examining the intrinsic dimensionality (ID) of token embeddings and their neighborhood structures. It finds that closed‑class tokens expand and collapse earlier than open‑class tokens, and that these changes are linked to shifts in local geometry. The authors compare encoder and decoder models, showing distinct layer‑wise behaviors, and demonstrate that geometric features alone can predict a token’s part‑of‑speech and reveal how semantic content changes across layers.

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