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Understanding LLM Failures: A Multi-tape Turing Machine Analysis Of Systematic Errors In Language Model Reasoning

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit failure modes on seemingly trivial tasks. We propose a formalisation of LLM interaction using a deterministic multi-tape Turing machine, where each tape represents a distinct component: input characters, tokens, vocabulary, model parameters, activations, probability distributions, and output text. The model enables precise localisation of failure modes to speci

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