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The First Token Is a Clue: Verbalizing Multi-Token Concepts from the J-lens

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-08-31 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-08-31 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-01

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-01

Abstract

The Jacobian Lens (J-lens) is a recent tool for interpreting LLMs. It reads a hidden state as a ranked list of vocabulary tokens, leaving multi-token concepts without a representation of their own. The original J-lens work addresses this limitation with Template Lens, which precomputes vectors for a fixed phrase vocabulary, and Oracle Lens, which fine-tunes components to propose phrases and recons

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#154 most recent of 186 cs.CL papers we have recorded · ↑ newer: S3Gym: Can LLMs Turn Self-Testing and Self-Judging into Self-Improveme · ↓ older: Every Token Leaves a Ripple in the Stream of Thought: Eliciting Model-
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