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PublishedMay 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Arithmetic in the Wild: Llama uses Base-10 Addition to Reason About Cyclic Concepts
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arXiv:2605.01148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does structure in representations imply structure in computation? We study how Llama-3.1-8B reasons over cyclic concepts (e.g., "what month is six months after August?"). Even though Llama-3.1-8B's representations for these concepts are circularly stru
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