Unveiling 'Intention Collapse': A Novel Approach to Understanding Reasoning in Language Models
Published:Jan 6, 2026 05:00
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•ArXiv NLP
Analysis
This paper introduces a novel concept, 'intention collapse,' and proposes metrics to quantify the information loss during language generation. The initial experiments, while small-scale, offer a promising direction for analyzing the internal reasoning processes of language models, potentially leading to improved model interpretability and performance. However, the limited scope of the experiment and the model-agnostic nature of the metrics require further validation across diverse models and tasks.
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Reference
“Every act of language generation compresses a rich internal state into a single token sequence.”