The Information Geometry of Softmax: Probing and Steering

The Information Geometry of Softmax: Probing and Steering

We leverage information geometry to formalize the semantic structure of embedding spaces induced by the softmax architecture, common in LLMs and CLIP models. Under review.

February 2026 · Kiho Park, Todd Nief, Yo Joong Choe, Victor Veitch
The Geometry of Categorical and Hierarchical Concepts in LLMs

The Geometry of Categorical and Hierarchical Concepts in LLMs

Building upon our ICML 2024 paper, we formalize the representations of categorical concepts in LLMs as convex polytopes and further show that hierarchically related concepts are represented as orthogonal vectors. Published in ICLR 2025 as Oral (top 1.8%).

April 2025 · Kiho Park, Yo Joong Choe, Yibo Jiang, Victor Veitch
The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of LLMs

The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of LLMs

We formalize different notions of linear representations in LLMs (e.g., linear probes and steering vectors) and unify those notions by identifying an inner product that encodes semantic structure. Published in ICML 2024.

July 2024 · Kiho Park, Yo Joong Choe, Victor Veitch