AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 6h ago7/10
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Emergent Ordinal Geometry in Transformers Trained on Local Comparisons
Researchers demonstrate that Transformers trained exclusively on adjacent comparisons spontaneously develop one-dimensional geometric structures that encode hidden rank orderings, exhibiting the symbolic distance effect observed in animal cognition. This discovery mechanistically bridges cognitive science with neural network representations, showing that decision confidence scales with ordinal distance even at ceiling accuracy.