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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 57/10

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Spectral Probe-Circuits: A Three-Step Recipe for Identifying Attention-Head Circuits in Pretrained Transformers

Researchers present a three-step methodology for identifying and validating attention-head circuits in transformer models using spectral analysis, pattern filtering, and causal ablation. The technique successfully isolates core computational circuits across multiple model sizes and architectures without requiring labeled data or gradient attribution.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 115/10

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Causal Emotion Recognition in Conversation: Context Saturation and Discourse-Marker Evidence

Researchers conducted a systematic study on emotion recognition in conversation using the IEMOCAP dataset, identifying that conversational context dominates performance but saturates within 10-30 preceding turns. The study reveals that hierarchical sentence representations and external affective lexicons provide minimal additional benefit, while discourse-marker analysis shows sadness correlates with reduced left-periphery markers, suggesting emotional states vary in context-dependency.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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Relational Intervention During Functional Collapse in Large Language Models: A Lexical-Statistical Ablation and a Structure x Register Factorial

Researchers tested how relational interventions affect language model behavior during functional collapse, finding that first-person emotional framing combined with relational structure significantly improves model recovery compared to technical or impersonal approaches. The study reveals a three-stage processing decomposition where attention, emotional state, and behavior respond to different intervention dimensions.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator: Understanding Its Algorithm Components and Their Roles for Better Empirical Performance

Researchers have conducted a comprehensive ablation study of Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator (TPE), a widely-used Bayesian optimization method, to clarify the role of each control parameter and improve its empirical performance. The study provides actionable recommendations for parameter tuning in machine learning frameworks like Hyperopt and Optuna, with implementations now available through OptunaHub.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 296/10

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The Cognitive Categorical Transformer: Category-Theoretic Inductive Biases for Language Modeling

Researchers introduce the Cognitive Categorical Transformer (CCT), a 306M-parameter language model that applies category-theoretic principles to improve upon GPT-2 Small, achieving 12% relative perplexity reduction on WikiText-103. The work provides empirical validation that simplicial message passing enhances language modeling performance and identifies a distinction between topology-adding versus consistency-enforcing categorical priors.

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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 76/10

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When Engineering Outruns Intelligence: Rethinking Instruction-Guided Navigation

Researchers challenge the narrative that large language models drive recent advances in instruction-guided navigation systems, demonstrating that carefully engineered geometric algorithms achieve comparable or superior performance with no API calls. The findings suggest frontier-based geometry, not language understanding, accounts for most reported progress in ObjectNav systems.