Four axioms (Causality, Minimality, Separability, Stability) are formalized for latent thought representations; audits of open LLMs on 23 tasks show none satisfy all four and representations add little beyond input embeddings.
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TILR identifies low-rank invariant subspaces from contrastive latent trajectory differences in LLMs and constrains interventions to them, improving paraphrase consistency by ~10% and reducing variance by up to 50%.
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Formalizing Latent Thoughts: Four Axioms of Thought Representation in LLMs
Four axioms (Causality, Minimality, Separability, Stability) are formalized for latent thought representations; audits of open LLMs on 23 tasks show none satisfy all four and representations add little beyond input embeddings.
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Invariant Reasoning Directions in Latent Trajectories of Language Models
TILR identifies low-rank invariant subspaces from contrastive latent trajectory differences in LLMs and constrains interventions to them, improving paraphrase consistency by ~10% and reducing variance by up to 50%.