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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models

As of 21 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 23 of 23 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2502.08009.

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This paper cites Do not directly state the emotion or use immediate synonyms.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Do not directly state the emotion or use immediate synonyms

Reference 1

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Format your response as follows: Joy:.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Format your response as follows: Joy:

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This paper cites Few-Shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning is Better and Cheaper than In-Context Learning.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Few-Shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning is Better and Cheaper than In-Context Learning

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models technology

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This paper cites On the geometry of generalization and memorization in deep neural networks.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models On the geometry of generalization and memorization in deep neural networks

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This paper cites Do not include any additional text or explanations outside of this format.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Do not include any additional text or explanations outside of this format

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This paper cites Sentence Embeddings To examine how task- specific prompts influence feature extraction and computation on intermediate tokens, we construct sentence embeddings as follows:.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Sentence Embeddings To examine how task- specific prompts influence feature extraction and computation on intermediate tokens, we construct sentence embeddings as follows:

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models This ensures that the resulting embeddings for each sentence are of the same length across different prompting conditions

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models packaged

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Category

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This paper cites Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Generating Sentences from a Continuous Space

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This paper cites What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models.

The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models What In-Context Learning "Learns" In-Context: Disentangling Task Recognition and Task Learning

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The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models

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What's in a prompt? Language models encode literary style in prompt embeddings cites this paper.

What's in a prompt? Language models encode literary style in prompt embeddings The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models

Reference 13

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Emergent Manifold Separability during Reasoning in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Emergent Manifold Separability during Reasoning in Large Language Models The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models

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Decomposing how prompting steers behavior cites this paper.

Decomposing how prompting steers behavior The Geometry of Prompting: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models

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