Pre-carved Niches: The Formation Dynamics of Modular Task Partitions in Early LLM Training

arXiv:2609.01170 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• Calibration — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Modularity — 9× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pruning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Unlocking Emergent Modularity in Large Language Models
• Loss Landscape Degeneracy and Stagewise Development in Transformers

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