@timfduffy 2025-08-29 ♥0 ↻0 original ↗
@tessera_antra The residual stream certainly provides coherence between layers of a single forward pass, but it is discarded at the end of a forward pass, so the asemantic information between tokens is just in the KV cache. I don't think this undermines the overall argument though.
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