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most citedCompositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task

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cs.MA2026

Emergence of Biased Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Debates

Maya Okawa

Multi-agent LLM debates achieve strong performance on decision-making tasks as well as problem-solving benchmarks, yet their safety and fairness risks remain poorly understood. Not…

cs.CL2025

Emergence of Hierarchical Emotion Organization in Large Language Models

Maya Okawa, Bo Zhao, Eric J. Bigelow +4

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly power conversational agents, understanding how they model users' emotional states is critical for ethical deployment. Inspired by emoti…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

ICLR: In-Context Learning of Representations

Core Francisco Park, Andrew Lee, Ekdeep Singh Lubana +5

Recent work has demonstrated that semantics specified by pretraining data influence how representations of different concepts are organized in a large language model (LLM). However…

cs.LG2024

Representation Shattering in Transformers: A Synthetic Study with Knowledge Editing

Kento Nishi, Rahul Ramesh, Maya Okawa +3

Knowledge Editing (KE) algorithms alter models' weights to perform targeted updates to incorrect, outdated, or otherwise unwanted factual associations. However, recent work has sho…

cs.LG2024

Swing-by Dynamics in Concept Learning and Compositional Generalization

Yongyi Yang, Core Francisco Park, Ekdeep Singh Lubana +3

Prior work has shown that text-conditioned diffusion models can learn to identify and manipulate primitive concepts underlying a compositional data-generating process, enabling gen…

cs.LG2024

Emergence of Hidden Capabilities: Exploring Learning Dynamics in Concept Space

Core Francisco Park, Maya Okawa, Andrew Lee +2

Modern generative models demonstrate impressive capabilities, likely stemming from an ability to identify and manipulate abstract concepts underlying their training data. However,…

cs.LG2024

Towards an Understanding of Stepwise Inference in Transformers: A Synthetic Graph Navigation Model

Mikail Khona, Maya Okawa, Jan Hula +5

Stepwise inference protocols, such as scratchpads and chain-of-thought, help language models solve complex problems by decomposing them into a sequence of simpler subproblems. Desp…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task

Maya Okawa, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Robert P. Dick +1

Modern generative models exhibit unprecedented capabilities to generate extremely realistic data. However, given the inherent compositionality of the real world, reliable use of th…