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Language Models Exhibit Conserved Attention Signals Across Diverse Architectures

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Researchers have identified a conserved signal within the marginal attention space of language models, which remains consistent across diverse LLMs. This signal, when token-wise reduced, reflects intrinsic text properties and is linked to the network's input-output Jacobian. When reduced head-wise, it creates a model-specific signature that can be used for optimizing key-value cache eviction strategies, showing competitive performance with existing methods. AI

IMPACT Reveals a conserved internal mechanism in LLMs that could lead to more efficient KV cache eviction strategies.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing findings about language model internal mechanics. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Language Models Exhibit Conserved Attention Signals Across Diverse Architectures

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Valentino Maiorca, Walter Nelson, Francesco Locatello ·

    Emergent Structure in the Marginal Attention Space of Language Models

    arXiv:2610.03109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While representation similarity across independently trained language models is well-documented, how internal mechanics such as attention behave across models remains far less characterized. Inspired by this gap, we examine the stru…

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