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PublishedJuly 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Attention Degradation, Function Token Anchoring, and the Limits of Attention-Based Intervention in Large Language Models
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arXiv:2607.20524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mean cross-positional attention degradation is widely reported in transformer interpretability, yet whether it causally limits contextual retrieval remains untested. We present six coordinated experiments across GPT-2, LLaMA-3.2-1B/3B, OPT-1.3B, and di
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