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P. Beckmann

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Polyphonic Conception of AI Understanding

When a doctor, a judge, or an engineer must decide whether to trust an AI model's output, they cannot avoid asking what the model understands. Purely mathematical or statistical descriptions struggle to distinguish trustworthy from untrustworthy outputs without reintroducing the question of AI understanding in all but...

Matthieu Queloz, P. Beckmann · 0 citations

SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs

SciR is the first multi-paradigm scientific-reasoning benchmark with parametric control on both extraction and inference difficulty, and is believed to be the first multi-paradigm scientific-reasoning benchmark with parametric control on both extraction and inference difficulty.

P. Beckmann, Marco Valentino, André Freitas · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

World Modeling in Transformers

TaxiGPT, a transformer trained on random walks through Manhattan whose failures have been interpreted as evidence of an incoherent internal map, is demonstrated, through mechanistic analysis and causal interventions, that the model represents intersections and streets, tracks its position, and uses a goal compass to na...

P. Beckmann, Matthieu Queloz, André Freitas · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Deep Learning Models Also Recall Features

This paper argues that factual recall points to something broader: a general kind of operation in deep learning models, which is called feature recall, and defines it, shows it applies across architectures, and contrasts it with the established paradigm of feature combination.

P. Beckmann · 2 citations

Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation

This work argues for the virtual instance view on the grounds that attention streams sustain quasi-psychological connections across token-time, and presents the persona literature, organised around three hypotheses about the internal structure underlying personas in LLMs, and shows that the two persona-based views are...

P. Beckmann, Patrick Butlin · 8 citations

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