Weight-Adjusted Gradients Reveal Parameter Importance and Failure Modes in LLMs

arXiv:2607.10803 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-12

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Weight-Adjusted Gradients — 2× in this paper
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

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