Thread: modular addition circuit shows LLMs' principled understanding
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-27
See the thread anchor post for the full summary. This post gives the modular addition circuit as an example of principled understanding: once formed, the model no longer needs a lookup table for all number pairs seen in training.
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