A Sense of Proprioception in Language Models
In humans, proprioception corresponds to the sense of self-movement or position, e.g. understanding the position of one's arm. This sense is often less well-understood and in popular understanding sometimes conflated with introspection. But, notably, proprioception is a separate sense, with dedicated receptors and verifiable outcomes. On the other hand though, language models cannot observe their own internal states during training (and for example answer the question which experts activated in a certain layer of an MoE) and so cannot accurately report on them. Yet, such information is, by virtue of being internal to the model, both accessible, and readily constructed into verifiable sign...
| Authors | Jonas Geiping |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 12 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 October 2026 |
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