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Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers
Jing Ding, Ziqiao Ma, Jiayuan Mao +2
We study how Vision Transformers ground abstract concepts (e.g., angry) when training data provide limited direct referential evidence. We hypothesize a metonymic grounding mechani…
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Cross-Session Decomposition Attacks: Scaling Risk and Intent-Aligned Retrieval Defense
Disen Liao, Yihan Wang, Freda Shi +1
Scaling laws are usually read as a capability story: lower language-modeling loss yields more useful models. We study a safety consequence of this mechanism in \emph{cross-session…