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Language models implement algorithms humans have tried and failed to write by hand for decades

Opening interpretive claim about the remarkable nature of language models.

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Spans attention head decomposition, benchmark awareness, and genomic pathogenicity prediction via neural models.
Autoregressive models and context window limitations
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Theoretical and empirical analysis of why AR language models cannot maintain coherence or convergence beyond their context window through local interactions alone.

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The model's parameters considered as the actual 'code' implementing its algorithms, as opposed to human-written code.

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