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Despite their great success, neural networks still remain as black-boxes due to the lack of interpretability. Here we propose a new analyzing method, namely the weight pathway analysis (WPA), to make them transparent. We consider weights in…
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Generative AI systems have entered everyday academic, professional, and personal life with remarkable speed, yet most users encounter them as mysterious artifacts rather than intelligible systems. This chapter discusses large language…
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This paper examines the role of threshold logic in understanding generative artificial intelligence. Threshold functions, originally studied in the 1960s in digital circuit synthesis, provide a structurally transparent model of neural…