arXiv Machine Learning By John Sweeney

The Geometry of Updates: Fisher Alignment at Vocabulary Scale

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arXiv:2606. 27242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free source selection for LLM families with shared vocabularies arises in scientific string domains such as SMILES, protein, and genomic sequences, where candidate corpora share a tokenizer but differ in prediction targets.

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