Apr 20
Hallucination as Trajectory Commitment: Causal Evidence for Asymmetric Attractor Dynamics in Transformer Generation
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Researchers present causal evidence that hallucinations in autoregressive language models result from early trajectory commitments driven by asymmetric attractor dynamics. The study uses activation patching on Qwen2.5-1.5B to show that once a model commits to a hallucinated path, it is significantly harder to correct than it is to corrupt a correct path.
Why it matters
Understanding the irreversible causal mechanics of model error trajectories is essential for developing effective real-time hallucination correction strategies.
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