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Script Invisibility Is Structural: Activation Profiling Across Three LLM Families

A cross-model extension of the activation profiling work. Instead of treating one model family as the source of the problem, it tests whether script invisibility recurs across model families and therefore reflects a structural training-distribution issue.

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Artifacts

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Source anchors

nko-brain-scanner/paper/current/paper3_cross_model.tex

nko-brain-scanner/paper/final/01-script-invisibility/paper.tex

Method tags

cross-model probingactivation profilingstructural invisibility

Ingest intersections

scriptllmcross-modelactivationnko

Status

Drafted.

Key claims

01

A failure repeated across model families is harder to dismiss as implementation noise.

02

Script visibility should be audited across architectures.

03

Low-resource evaluation needs internal diagnostics, not only benchmark scores.

Public reading note

Drafted.

Standard skeleton

What this paper must keep proving

Schema

problem

A single-model result can be dismissed as model-specific; the structural claim requires recurrence across model families.

method

Compare activation and behavior across three LLM families under the same N'Ko/script probe conditions.

implementation

Cross-model LaTeX manuscript plus shared script-invisibility probe family.

data

Matched N'Ko probes and comparable model-output/activation snapshots.

evaluation

Whether the invisibility pattern repeats across architectures rather than appearing in one family only.

references

Multilingual benchmarks, tokenizer studies, representation diagnostics, script undertraining literature.

openQuestions

Which model families and exact checkpoints should be cited publicly with reproducible version labels.

Checkpoints and references

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Claim checkpoint

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Implementation checkpoint

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Evidence checkpoint

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Reference checkpoint

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