Better Behavioral Prediction, More Faithful Model Ablations? Evidence from Sequential Choice

arXiv:2609.36097 · q-bio.NC, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

q-bio.NC, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/xhb120633/transformer_b

Terminology

• Transformer — 47× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 29× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalization — 5× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Tokenization — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• First-Order Transition — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Additive Decomposition — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Filler Tokens — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
• Small Foundation Models of Human Cognition and Behaviour

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