Habituation, the progressive weakening of neural responses to repeated stimuli, is fundamental to biological intelligence, enabling efficient information processing by filtering redundancy. Objective of this post is to report the insights I found looking for such mechanism within LLMs. Understanding habituation in transformers matters because: * It reveals whether AI...
Habituation, the progressive weakening of neural responses to repeated stimuli, is fundamental to biological intelligence, enabling efficient information processing by filtering redundancy. Objective of this post is to report the insights I found looking for such mechanism within LLMs. Understanding habituation in transformers matters because: * It reveals whether AI...
There’s a peculiar feeling that comes when staring too long at a repeated word. After the tenth or twentieth time your eyes land on "dog", the word begins to lose its sharpness. It collapses into a sound, then into a set of shapes, and eventually, if you persist, into something...