Computation Over Geometry: Meaning Identity Is Computed, Not Shipped in the Embeddings

arXiv:2609.28290 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• AUC — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Late Fusion — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Linear probe — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Instruction Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
• Passage Re-ranking with BERT
• On the Persistent Effects of Lexicality in Large Language Models
• Text Embeddings by Weakly-Supervised Contrastive Pre-training

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