Transient semantic activation in LLMs may act like conceptual short-term memory

dioscuri · x · 2026-08-23

@historianseldon notes that a piece written before modern LLMs existed proved prescient: transient semantic activation in LLMs could function as a form of conceptual short-term memory, particularly interesting in multimodal LLMs. @dioscuri shared the full piece, and a follow-up post linked the actual paper.

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