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People increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for everyday moral and interpersonal guidance, yet these systems cannot interrogate missing context and judge dilemmas as presented. We introduce a perturbation framework for testing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Tom van Nuenen , Pratik S. Sachdeva

Understanding the latent space geometry of large language models (LLMs) is key to interpreting their behavior and improving alignment. Yet it remains unclear to what extent LLMs linearly organize representations related to semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Baturay Saglam , Paul Kassianik , Blaine Nelson , Sajana Weerawardhena , Yaron Singer , Amin Karbasi

Decoder-only language models, such as GPT and LLaMA, generally decode on the last layer. Motivated by human's hierarchical thinking capability, we propose that a hierarchical decoder architecture could be built with different layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihong Wang , Zhonglin Jiang , Ningyuan Xi , Yue Zhao , Qingqing Gu , Xiyuan Chen , Hao Wu , Sheng Xu , Hange Zhou , Yong Chen , Luo Ji

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in reasoning, whether they can sustain persistent latent states remains under-explored. The capacity to maintain and manipulate unexpressed, internal representations-analogous to human working…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jen-tse Huang , Kaiser Sun , Wenxuan Wang , Mark Dredze

We introduce an extensive dataset for multilingual probing of morphological information in language models (247 tasks across 42 languages from 10 families), each consisting of a sentence with a target word and a morphological tag as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Judit Acs , Endre Hamerlik , Roy Schwartz , Noah A. Smith , Andras Kornai

Transformer architectures show significant promise for natural language processing. Given that a single pretrained model can be fine-tuned to perform well on many different tasks, these networks appear to extract generally useful linguistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Andy Coenen , Emily Reif , Ann Yuan , Been Kim , Adam Pearce , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Direct numerical simulations are conducted to study the receptivity and transition mechanisms in a solitary wave boundary layer developing over randomly organized wave-like bottom topography. The boundary layer flow shows a selective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-24 Asim Önder , Philip L. -F. Liu

The real-world information sources are inherently multilingual, which naturally raises a question about whether language models can synthesize information across languages. In this paper, we introduce a simple two-hop question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yan Meng , Wafaa Mohammed , Christof Monz

The internal representations learned by deep networks are often sensitive to architecture-specific choices, raising questions about the stability, alignment, and transferability of learned structure across models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

We introduce LlamaGen, a new family of image generation models that apply original ``next-token prediction'' paradigm of large language models to visual generation domain. It is an affirmative answer to whether vanilla autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Shoufa Chen , Shilong Zhang , Bingyue Peng , Ping Luo , Zehuan Yuan

State-of-the-art language models are becoming increasingly large in an effort to achieve the highest performance on large corpora of available textual data. However, the sheer size of the Transformer architectures makes it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Markus Nagel , Mart van Baalen , Yuki M. Asano , Tijmen Blankevoort

Despite significant progress in transformer interpretability, an understanding of the computational mechanisms of large language models (LLMs) remains a fundamental challenge. Many approaches interpret a network's hidden representations but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 James R. Golden

LLMs can perform seemingly planning-intensive tasks, like writing coherent stories or functioning code, without explicitly verbalizing a plan; however, the extent to which they implicitly plan is unknown. In this paper, we define latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Michael Hanna , Emmanuel Ameisen

Linear sequences of words are implicitly represented in our brains by hierarchical structures that organize the composition of words in sentences. Linguists formalize different frameworks to model this hierarchy; two of the most common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Omar Momen

The extent to which decoder-only language models (LMs) engage in planning, that is, organizing intermediate computations to support coherent long-range generation, remains an important question, with implications for interpretability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammed Ustaomeroglu , Baris Askin , Gauri Joshi , Carlee Joe-Wong , Guannan Qu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant advances in natural language processing, but their underlying mechanisms are often misunderstood. Despite exhibiting coherent answers and apparent reasoning behaviors, LLMs rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Bo Zhou , Daniel Geißler , Paul Lukowicz

World models compress rich sensory streams into compact latent codes that anticipate future observations. We let separate agents acquire such models from distinct viewpoints of the same environment without any parameter sharing or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haoran Zhang , Youjin Wang , Yi Duan , Rong Fu , Dianyu Zhao , Sicheng Fan , Shuaishuai Cao , Wentao Guo , Xiao Zhou

Because language is creative, any reasonable language model must generalize, deciding what to say in novel contexts by using information from similar contexts. But what about contexts that are not novel but merely infrequent? In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Vsevolod Kapatsinski

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as the Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT), have achieved tremendous success in various language tasks, but their emergent abilities have also raised many questions, concerns, and challenges that need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Tao Hong

Emerging 6G visions, reflected in ongoing standardization efforts within 3GPP, IETF, ETSI, ITU-T, and the O-RAN Alliance, increasingly characterize networks as AI-native systems in which high-level semantic reasoning layers operate above…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Abderrahmane Lakas , Merouane Debbah