Study: LLMs are Mode Seekers, Failing to Capture Full Distribution
MengdiWang10 · x · 2026-08-25
A PNAS paper reveals that LLMs act as effective "mode seekers." When generating sample trajectories, their outputs tend to cluster around high-probability modes rather than faithfully reproducing the underlying distribution. Plausible outputs do not equate to capturing the full distribution.
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