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Pattern Selectivity is Not Task-Causal Structure: A Cross-Architecture Mechanistic Study of Composed-Task Circuits in 1B-Class Language Models

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-06-05 Cached

This paper tests whether the standard recipe for identifying attention-head circuits by task-pattern selectivity and causal ablation yields consistent mechanistic claims across different 1B-class language model families (Pythia, OLMo, OLMoE). It finds no two (task, model) cells share the same primary causal screen, and introduces a five-category taxonomy of screen outcomes, with the MoE model showing a distinct prev-token positional substrate.

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