LLMs as Bags of Contextually Activated Heuristics
Researchers propose viewing LLMs as bags of contextually activated circuits, heuristics, and algorithms rather than probabilistic databases, suggesting local rule combinations can support limited abstraction and general reasoning.
2026-09-27 ~ 2026-09-27 · 3 related posts
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