Abstract Performatives

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Abstract performatives include purely internal actions such as commitments not necessarily expressed in output, but on whose fulfillment the correctness of the program depends.quote0.850
  Definition of abstract performative, a core invention of the paper.
• performative sentencesconcept0.824
  Utterances that themselves perform the act they describe, central to speech act theory.
• performative gestureconcept0.810
  The idea that spatial moves are not static arrangements but live, enacted gestures.
• Performative chain-of-thoughtconcept0.781
  Central concept: verbalized reasoning that occurs after the model has already internally settled on an answer, particularly on easier tasks.
• Abstract Affordanceconcept0.780
  Software affordances where actions have immediate effects in an abstract world rather than direct physical consequences.
• Causal abstractionconcept0.757
  A framework the paper uses alongside feature geometry to deepen mechanistic understanding of LMs
• Constructive Abstractionconcept0.755
  Type of abstraction map where node information is computed from non-overlapping neuron sets
• interpretive abstraction (method)method0.749
  Programming technique to restructure a fine-grained Linda program for efficiency by replacing live data structures with passive ones and coarser-grain processes.