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PonderLM-2: Pretraining LLM with Latent Thoughts in Continuous Space
Boyi Zeng, He Li, Shixiang Song +5
The remarkable success of Chain-of-Thought (CoT), which enhances performance by scaling generation steps at test-time, inspires us to ask: can we leverage a similar scaling of comp…
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Shadows in the Attention: Contextual Perturbation and Representation Drift in the Dynamics of Hallucination in LLMs
Zeyu Wei, Shuo Wang, Xiaohui Rong +2
Hallucinations -- plausible yet erroneous outputs -- remain a critical barrier to reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs). We present the first systematic study linking…
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PonderLM: Pretraining Language Models to Ponder in Continuous Space
Boyi Zeng, Shixiang Song, Siyuan Huang +6
Humans ponder before articulating complex sentence elements, enabling deeper cognitive processing through focused effort. In this work, we introduce this pondering process into lan…