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The Devil is in the Spectrum: Mitigating Representation Collapse in LLMs via Topologically Regularized Side-Path

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arXiv:2607. 20484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally limited by representation collapse, a bottleneck that severely degrades long-context performance.

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