The Changing Geometry of Grammar: Dimensionality and Neighborhood Reorganization across Transformer Layers | SpinGraph: Innovation framing
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published: 2026-08-27T04:00:00+00:00
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The Changing Geometry of Grammar: Dimensionality and Neighborhood Reorganization across Transformer Layers
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date published: 2026-08-27T04:00:00+00:00
date modified: 2026-08-27T21:29:12.69065+00:00
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keywords: intrinsic dimensionality, part-of-speech, transformer geometry, neighborhood structure
author: arXiv Computation and Language
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citation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25166
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about: transformer geometry
about: neighborhood structure
mentions: arXiv Computation and Language
abstract: Intrinsic dimensionality (ID) of token representations expands and collapses layer-wise in patterns tied to part-of-speech class. These ID shifts reflect changes in local neighborhood structure — i.e., how words relate to each other within sentences. Encoders and decoders exhibit distinct geometric evolution patterns, aligning with their contextual integration mechanisms.

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  description: Foundational science advancing the theoretical understanding of how language models internalize grammar.
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  value: New research shows grammar shapes how AI models organize language internally — revealing that parts of speech like nouns and prepositions follow distinct geometric paths across neural network layers.
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  value: No discussion of computational cost or scalability of ID estimation across large models or datasets.; No comparison to non-geometric interpretability methods (e.g., probing classifiers, attention analysis).
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    text: Geometric features alone recover a token's grammatical role.
    appearance: We show that geometric features alone recover a token's grammatical role, and use them to interpret how the semantic content of each PoS evolves across layers in a downstream classification task.
    author: arXiv Computation and Language

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