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cs.CL2026
Context or Knowledge: How LLMs Attribute Their Own Answers
Kirill Afendulev, Alexey Dontsov, Alla Chepurova +2
Language models can answer a question from a supplied document or from their parametric knowledge. When later asked where the answer came from, what determines their source report?…
cs.CL2026
From Stories to Features: Scaling Concept Vectors for AI Alignment & Interpretability
Dmitry Scherbakov, Oleg Chernikov, Victoria Khamash +5
We study feature vectors: directions in a language model's activation space that correspond to human-interpretable concepts, such as honesty or deception. Existing unsupervised met…
cs.CL2026
What Attention Recalls and Recurrence Controls in Hybrid Language Models
Kirill Afendulev, Alexey Dontsov, Elena Tutubalina +1
Hybrid language models combine attention with a fixed-size recurrent state, but the role of each channel remains unclear. We introduce two cache-level interventions. Split-prefill…