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PublishedMay 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Features have life history. And we should care
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arXiv:2605.18789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Features in language models have life history: they emerge, persist, and die during training, yet the importance of that history remains largely unexplored. We find evidence of a persistent representational backbone, which we identify in Pythia-160M
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