Dev Spotlight: Transformers Forced to Predict Themselves and Build Belief States
yacinelearning · x · 2026-09-09
yacinelearning voices enthusiasm for the idea that transformers, across various settings, are forced to learn to predict themselves and build up a belief state — a framing used to explain how autoregressive models internalize inference about the world. The post links to the underlying discussion without further elaboration.
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