Function Lives Where Variance Doesn't: Task-Weighted Charts of a Language Model's Computation

arXiv:2609.18989 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-12 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-12

Updated: 2026-08-12

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Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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