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What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 17 of 17 outbound references and 13 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.02546.

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This paper cites Why do LLMs attend to the first token?.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Why do LLMs attend to the first token?

Reference 1

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Observation f80c0435-9951-4d17-aa5d-fc8a11f3bdd4 · outbound

This paper cites Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases Enables Input Length Extrapolation

Reference 6

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This paper cites Beyond Position: the emergence of wavelet-like properties in Transformers.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Beyond Position: the emergence of wavelet-like properties in Transformers

Reference 7

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This paper cites Learning High-Frequency Functions Made Easy with Sinusoidal Positional Encoding.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Learning High-Frequency Functions Made Easy with Sinusoidal Positional Encoding

Reference 8

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This paper cites The information bottleneck method.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink The information bottleneck method

Reference 9

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What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Unresolved cited work

Reference 16

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This paper cites layer 5 in BERT), indicating that larger models can maintain the initial coordinate system longer before transitioning to the integration phase.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink layer 5 in BERT), indicating that larger models can maintain the initial coordinate system longer before transitioning to the integration phase

Reference 19

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Observation e566a805-7c24-423d-9132-7c1fed8c0960 · outbound

This paper cites inverted U.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink inverted U

Reference 21

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This paper cites Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned

Reference 2000

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This paper cites For each checkpoint during training, we extracted attention matrices from all layers and heads, computed their eigendecomposition, and tracked the evolution of these metrics.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink For each checkpoint during training, we extracted attention matrices from all layers and heads, computed their eigendecomposition, and tracked the evolution of these metrics

Reference 2019

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This paper cites Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

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This paper cites When Attention Sink Emerges in Language Models: An Empirical View.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink When Attention Sink Emerges in Language Models: An Empirical View

Reference 2021

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This paper cites Quantifying Context Mixing in Transformers.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Quantifying Context Mixing in Transformers

Reference 2024

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This paper cites Spectral Filters, Dark Signals, and Attention Sinks.

What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink Spectral Filters, Dark Signals, and Attention Sinks

Reference 2025

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Pith citing papers

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Scene Generation at Absolute Scale: Utilizing Semantic and Geometric Guidance From Text for Accurate and Interpretable 3D Indoor Scene Generation cites this paper.

Scene Generation at Absolute Scale: Utilizing Semantic and Geometric Guidance From Text for Accurate and Interpretable 3D Indoor Scene Generation What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 20

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When Sinks Help or Hurt: Unified Framework for Attention Sink in Large Vision-Language Models cites this paper.

When Sinks Help or Hurt: Unified Framework for Attention Sink in Large Vision-Language Models What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 32

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When Sinks Help or Hurt: Unified Framework for Attention Sink in Large Vision-Language Models cites this paper.

When Sinks Help or Hurt: Unified Framework for Attention Sink in Large Vision-Language Models What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 32

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SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models cites this paper.

SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 13

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SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models cites this paper.

SinkTrack: Attention Sink based Context Anchoring for Large Language Models What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 13

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A Mechanistic Account of Attention Sinks in GPT-2: One Circuit, Broader Implications for Mitigation cites this paper.

A Mechanistic Account of Attention Sinks in GPT-2: One Circuit, Broader Implications for Mitigation What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

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Parameter Efficiency Is Not Memory Efficiency: Rethinking Fine-Tuning for On-Device LLM Adaptation cites this paper.

Parameter Efficiency Is Not Memory Efficiency: Rethinking Fine-Tuning for On-Device LLM Adaptation What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 3

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A Single Layer to Explain Them All:Understanding Massive Activations in Large Language Models cites this paper.

A Single Layer to Explain Them All:Understanding Massive Activations in Large Language Models What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 17

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A Single Layer to Explain Them All:Understanding Massive Activations in Large Language Models cites this paper.

A Single Layer to Explain Them All:Understanding Massive Activations in Large Language Models What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 17

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Retrieval and competition: how a protein foundation model starts a protein cites this paper.

Retrieval and competition: how a protein foundation model starts a protein What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 16

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Retrieval and competition: how a protein foundation model starts a protein cites this paper.

Retrieval and competition: how a protein foundation model starts a protein What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 16

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ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning cites this paper.

ASAP: Attention Sink Anchored Pruning What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

Reference 16

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Massive Spikes in LLMs are Bias Vectors: Mechanistic Uncovering and Spike-Free Quantization cites this paper.

Massive Spikes in LLMs are Bias Vectors: Mechanistic Uncovering and Spike-Free Quantization What are you sinking? A geometric approach on attention sink

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