Which Attention Heads are like the Human Head? Not the Ones that Compute

arXiv:2609.37991 · cs.AI, q-bio.NC · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, q-bio.NC

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Accuracy — 34× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 33× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 30× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Patching — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Predictive Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Large Language Models Show Signs of Alignment with Human Neurocognition During Abstract Reasoning

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