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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Function Vectors in Large Language Models · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.15213/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.15213/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Function Vectors in Large Language Models — mentioned by famouswaffles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020464</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2310.15213:38020464</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 01:05:20 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;This is speculation but i don&amp;#x27;t think this information (how it came to be) is actually irrelevant information for the LLM. Your state, which transformer LLMs notably have no way of transferring is &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; the computation that preceded the prediction. I think LLMs use previous tokens to compute the likely state vector that preceded the tokens and make predictions that continue this computed state. So the 2 board positions at time x may be identical but the state preceding it or &amp;quot;strategy&amp;quot; was not and so the next move is not identical. This way also, you can make a decision based on the…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.15213/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
