Language Models Struggle to Use Representations Learned In-Context

arXiv:2602.04212 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-02-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-02-04

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Latent Representation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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