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Sprint projectJun 3, 2024

RNNs represent belief state geometry in hidden state

Keenan Pepper · Team Keenan

Submitted to Computational Mechanics Hackathon. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.

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The Shai et al. experiments on transformers (finding belief state geometry in the residual stream) have been replicated in RNNs with the hidden state instead of the residual stream. In general the belief state is stored linearly, but not in any particular layer, rather spread out across layers.

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@misc{pepper2024rnns,
  title = {{RNNs represent belief state geometry in hidden state}},
  author = {Keenan Pepper},
  year = {2024},
  month = jun,
  note = {Submitted to Computational Mechanics Hackathon, an Apart Research Sprint},
  howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/rnns-represent-belief-state-geometry-in-hidden-state}},
  url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/rnns-represent-belief-state-geometry-in-hidden-state}
}

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