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  "id": "2402.11917",
  "title": "A Mechanistic Analysis of a Transformer Trained on a Symbolic Multi-Step Reasoning Task",
  "authors": "Jannik Brinkmann, Abhay Sheshadri, Victor Levoso, Paul Swoboda, Christian Bartelt",
  "first_public": "2024-02-19",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2402.11917",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11917",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
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  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Reverse-engineers a transformer trained on symbolic multi-step reasoning to characterize its learned internal algorithm.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Jannik Brinkmann",
    "Abhay Sheshadri",
    "Victor Levoso",
    "Paul Swoboda",
    "Christian Bartelt"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2024-02-19",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2402.11917/index.md",
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