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Jalal Naghiyev

3 accepted papers

2026

Understanding the Emergence of Seemingly Useless Features in Next-Token Predictors

ICLR 2026poster

Trained Transformers have been shown to compute abstract features that appear redundant for predicting the immediate next token. We identify which components of the gradient signal from the next-token prediction objective give rise to this phenomenon, and we propose a method to estimate the influenc…

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2025

A machine learning approach that beats Rubik's cubes

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

The paper proposes a novel machine learning-based approach to the pathfinding problem on extremely large graphs. This method leverages diffusion distance estimation via a neural network and uses beam search for pathfinding. We demonstrate its efficiency by finding solutions for 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 Rubik…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Layer by Layer: Uncovering Hidden Representations in Language Models

ICML 2025oral

From extracting features to generating text, the outputs of large language models (LLMs) typically rely on their final layers, following the conventional wisdom that earlier layers capture only low-level cues. However, our analysis shows that intermediate layers can encode even richer representation…

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