3 papers
cs.LG2026
Characterizing Pattern Matching and Its Limits on Compositional Task Structures
Hoyeon Chang, Jinho Park, Hanseul Cho +7
Despite impressive capabilities, LLMs' successes often rely on pattern-matching behaviors, yet these are also linked to OOD generalization failures in compositional tasks. However,…
cs.CL2025
Latent Reasoning via Sentence Embedding Prediction
Hyeonbin Hwang, Byeongguk Jeon, Seungone Kim +7
Autoregressive language models (LMs) generate one token at a time, yet human reasoning operates over higher-level abstractions - sentences, propositions, and concepts. This contras…
cs.CL2025
Knowledge Entropy Decay during Language Model Pretraining Hinders New Knowledge Acquisition
Jiyeon Kim, Hyunji Lee, Hyowon Cho +6
In this work, we investigate how a model's tendency to broadly integrate its parametric knowledge evolves throughout pretraining, and how this behavior affects overall performance,…