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LLMs encode essay quality representations linearly, study finds

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Researchers have investigated how large language models (LLMs) represent essay quality internally, finding that this information is encoded in a linearly accessible form within the models' representations. This information emerges progressively across layers and remains robust across different prompting strategies and even partially transfers across different essay prompts and scoring rubrics. The study also identified specific neurons that correlate strongly with essay scores and whose behavior is sensitive to intervention, offering new insights into the interpretability of LLM-based automated essay scoring systems. AI

IMPACT Provides insights into the interpretability of LLMs for automated essay scoring, potentially improving fairness and transparency in educational assessments.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing research findings on LLM representations.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiaxu Zuo, Mu You, Kaixin Lan, Tao Fang, Yujia Huo, Henghua Shen, Lidia S. Chao, Derek F. Wong ·

    From Texts to Scores: Tracing the Emergence of Essay Quality Representations in Large Language Models

    arXiv:2606.20152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially transformed Automated Essay Scoring (AES), yet the internal mechanisms underlying LLM-based scoring remain poorly understood. In this work, we systematically analy…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Derek F. Wong ·

    From Texts to Scores: Tracing the Emergence of Essay Quality Representations in Large Language Models

    Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially transformed Automated Essay Scoring (AES), yet the internal mechanisms underlying LLM-based scoring remain poorly understood. In this work, we systematically analyze the hidden representations of eight LLMs across…

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