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Mechanistic interpretation of why meta-prompting effects scale with model size
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extracted_from(2026) · Alex McKenzie · Keenan Pepper · Stijn Servaes · Martin Leitgab +5
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- Suggests underlying self-monitoring circuits must be present for meta-prompting to enhance them
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