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finding:ambiguous-anchors-33-27-60-11-9-20-yield-four-distinct-arithmetic-interpretations-across-m1-m4Ambiguous anchors (33-27=60, 11-9=20) yield four distinct arithmetic interpretations across M1-M4
Models produce different answers (240, 138, -240) from the same ambiguous prompt
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extracted_from(2025) · Edward Yi Chang · Kaya, Zeyneb N. · Ethan Chang
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- Conclusion from E1 and central UCCT claim.
- Small prompt changes can yield threshold-like shifts because S crosses the critical value ScsupportsAuthors' explanation for abrupt behavioral changes
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- Few-shot anchoring & latent structuremembers_ofHow minimal examples disambiguate and recruit latent arithmetic/reasoning interpretations in LLMs
- How minimal, task-specific prompt examples rebind model priors across threshold boundaries without weight updates, studied through arithmetic reasoning tasks.
- How ill-defined subtraction anchors (e.g., 33-27=60) produce divergent reasoning across models M1–M4
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- E1 finding showing that near-threshold, marginal model differences tilt to qualitatively different bindings
- Adding a single disambiguating example (12−9=21) aligns divergent M1-M4 interpretations under tested seedsfinding0.776E1 finding consistent with threshold-crossing: near-threshold state resolved by one additional anchor
- Interpretation of E3 layer-wise results; motivates targeted UCCT interventions at layers 8-12
- Shows interpretability correlates with activation strength, most model effect comes from high activations
- Task-specific comparison.
- E3 result establishing the Goldilocks zone at mid-layers for LLaMA architecture
- Math and code tasks show strongest mid-layer anchoring on LLaMA (S ≈ −1.65 at layers 8-12)finding0.729Task-specific E3 finding showing compositional reasoning requires deeper processing