LLM Uncertainty Linked to Unigram Distribution Geometry

2026-09-04

Researchers have identified a geometric structure within large language models that dictates their behavior when uncertain. This 'direction of ignorance' corresponds to the training data's unigram distribution, acting as a Bayesian prior.

Source: arXiv · cs.LG

Reported by VERA Newswire.

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