2026
Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Transformers: A Group-Equivariant Framework for Solving the Reversal Curse via Adjoint Manifold Mappings
ICML 2026poster
The "reversal curse" exposes a critical asymmetry in autoregressive models, where causal masking collapses bidirectional logic into non-invertible latent subspaces. This work characterizes such failure as a structural breaking of chiral symmetry within the representation manifold. We bridge this gap…