LLMs represent concepts as vectors. Strikingly, taxonomies (organism → animal → bird) appear as hierarchies in em…

LLMs represent concepts as vectors. Strikingly, taxonomies (organism → animal → bird) appear as hierarchies in embedding space. Led by my student @AndresNava , we show this comes from co-occurrence statistics alone. http:// arxiv.org/abs/
Ranked #89 on backlist 2026-05-27 (27 May 2026 UTC) · by (Matthieu wyart) ·

How it ranks: Backlist reads my Twitter/X timeline, scores every tweet for substance with an LLM rubric (not engagement), and publishes the daily top picks with a one-line takeaway. Curated by Surya Dantuluri.