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cs.LG2026

The Geometry of Ignorance: LLMs Know When to Temper Bayesian Priors

Toni J. B. Liu, Jiajun Bao, Yizhou Liu +4

What does a language model predict when it has few clues? The answer lurks in its unembedding geometry: a single direction of the unembedding matrix encodes the unigram distributio…

cs.LG2026

A Graph Signal Processing Perspective on Numerical Sequence Representations in LLM In-Context Learning

Jiajun Bao, Zihao Qi, Toni J. B. Liu +4

Pretrained large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated in-context learning (ICL) capabilities for numerical inference over sequences serialized as text. Prior work has identifie…

cs.LG2025

Text-Trained LLMs Can Zero-Shot Extrapolate PDE Dynamics, Revealing a Three-Stage In-Context Learning Mechanism

Jiajun Bao, Nicolas Boullé, Toni J. B. Liu +2

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emergent in-context learning (ICL) capabilities across a range of tasks, including zero-shot time-series forecasting. We show that te…

cs.LG2024

Density estimation with LLMs: a geometric investigation of in-context learning trajectories

Toni J. B. Liu, Nicolas Boullé, Raphaël Sarfati +1

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable emergent abilities to perform in-context learning across various tasks, including time series forecasting. This work investigate…

cs.LG2024

Lines of Thought in Large Language Models

Raphaël Sarfati, Toni J. B. Liu, Nicolas Boullé +1

Large Language Models achieve next-token prediction by transporting a vectorized piece of text (prompt) across an accompanying embedding space under the action of successive transf…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

LLMs learn governing principles of dynamical systems, revealing an in-context neural scaling law

Toni J. B. Liu, Nicolas Boullé, Raphaël Sarfati +1

Pretrained large language models (LLMs) are surprisingly effective at performing zero-shot tasks, including time-series forecasting. However, understanding the mechanisms behind su…