Language model circuits show high within-task consistency and necessity but substantial overlap across tasks, making them less specific than assumed.
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LLMs implement a second-order confidence architecture where the PANL activation encodes both error likelihood and the ability to correct it, beyond verbal confidence or log-probabilities.
Mechanistic experiments on Gemma 3 27B, Qwen 2.5 7B and Magistral Small 24B show verbal confidence is cached at post-answer positions from answer tokens and captures richer answer-quality information beyond token log-probabilities.
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How Much Do Circuits Tell Us? Measuring the Consistency and Specificity of Language Model Circuits
Language model circuits show high within-task consistency and necessity but substantial overlap across tasks, making them less specific than assumed.
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How LLMs Detect and Correct Their Own Errors: The Role of Internal Confidence Signals
LLMs implement a second-order confidence architecture where the PANL activation encodes both error likelihood and the ability to correct it, beyond verbal confidence or log-probabilities.
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How do LLMs Compute Verbal Confidence
Mechanistic experiments on Gemma 3 27B, Qwen 2.5 7B and Magistral Small 24B show verbal confidence is cached at post-answer positions from answer tokens and captures richer answer-quality information beyond token log-probabilities.