12 papers
Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models
Wes Gurnee, Nicholas Sofroniew, Adam Pearce +13
Out of everything the human brain processes, only a small fraction is consciously accessible, in the sense of being available for verbal report, deliberate control, and flexible re…
LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot": A Pilot Study on Twitter/X
Shuo Xing, Junyuan Hong, Yifan Wang +5
We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To unveil junk effects, we…
VLM-3R: Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction
Zhiwen Fan, Jian Zhang, Renjie Li +15
The rapid advancement of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for 2D images and videos has motivated extending these models to understand 3D scenes, aiming for human-like visual-spatial…
Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders +13
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-releva…
Neurosymbolic LoRA: Why and When to Tune Weights vs. Rewrite Prompts
Kevin Wang, Neel P. Bhatt, Cong Liu +7
Large language models (LLMs) can be adapted either through numerical updates that alter model parameters or symbolic manipulations that work on discrete prompts or logical constrai…
SEAL: Steerable Reasoning Calibration of Large Language Models for Free
Runjin Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Junyuan Hong +2
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's o1-series have demonstrated compelling capabilities for complex reasoning tasks via the extended chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning mec…