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cs.CL2026
Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation
Xingyu Ren, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi +1
Sparse attention is widely deployed in long-context serving stacks, yet no framework audits how discarding blocks changes the influence of specific content on model output. We firs…
cs.CL2026
Cross-Task Dissociation in Frontier Vision-Language Model Theory of Mind
Kejia Zhang, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi +1
Do frontier vision-language models present a coherent Theory-of-Mind (ToM) profile across tasks, matching the same human reference group, or does that profile fragment from one par…