Hypothesizing the Formation Mechanism of J-space

willdepue · x · 2026-07-13

The author ponders whether preventing attention gradients from flowing to past tokens could stop the formation of J-space. They suspect this might be the primary reason models perform lookahead calculations; without this mechanism, forming J-space through circuit sharing alone would be quite difficult.

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