8-Year Study Reveals Implicit Symbolic Structure in LLMs
shangbinfeng · x · 2026-09-02
A new paper resulting from an 8-year project finds that while LLMs seem different from symbolic systems, they excel in symbolic domains like language, code, and math. The research reveals that LLM representations possess implicit symbolic structures.
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