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Raphaël Sarfati

4 accepted papers

2026

Disentangling a Large Language Model’s Computation from its Chain-of-Thought

ICML 2026poster

Do the chains of thought (CoT) of reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) reflect their internal computation? In this paper, we provide evidence of \textit{performative} CoT, where a model becomes strongly confident in its final answer, but continues generating excess tokens without revealing its int…

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2025

Density estimation with LLMs: a geometric investigation of in-context learning trajectories

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable emergent abilities to perform in-context learning across various tasks, including time series forecasting. This work investigates LLMs' ability to estimate probability density functions (PDFs) from data observed in-context; such density estimatio…

2024

LLMs learn governing principles of dynamical systems, revealing an in-context neural scaling law

EMNLP 2024main

We study LLMs’ ability to extrapolate the behavior of various dynamical systems, including stochastic, chaotic, continuous, and discrete systems, whose evolution is governed by principles of physical interest. Our results show that LLaMA-2, a language model trained on text, achieves accurate predict…