Arithmetic in the Wild: Llama uses Base-10 Addition to Reason About Cyclic Concepts

arXiv:2605.01148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does structure in representations imply structure in computation? We study how Llama-3.1-8B reasons over cyclic concepts (e.g., "what month is six months after August?"). Even though Llama-3.1-8B's representations for these concepts are circularly...