Stabilizing Meaning Beyond Local Coherence in Generative Systems

Large language models frequently generate outputs that are locally coherent while remaining globally semantically unstable, resulting in hallucinations and meaning drift. Prevailing mitigation strategies rely on threshold-based metrics, guardrails, or post hoc alignment mechanisms, which scale poorly and impose externally defined normative constraints. This paper introduces a frequency-based stabilization principle that treats meaning as a dynamic relational process sustained over generative time, rather than as a static correctness condition. Semantic stability is not enforced through predefined thresholds or truth criteria, but emerges through the persistence and recurrence of coherent relational configurations during generation.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-02-05
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18493842
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Language and cultural evolution
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Stabilizing Meaning Beyond Local Coherence in Generative Systems

biljana knezevic
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Language and cultural evolution
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Stabilizing Meaning Beyond Local Coherence in Generative Systems

biljana knezevic
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Abstract

Large language models frequently generate outputs that are locally coherent while remaining globally semantically unstable, resulting in hallucinations and meaning drift. Prevailing mitigation strategies rely on threshold-based metrics, guardrails, or post hoc alignment mechanisms, which scale poorly and impose externally defined normative constraints. This paper introduces a frequency-based stabilization principle that treats meaning as a dynamic relational process sustained over generative time, rather than as a static correctness condition. Semantic stability is not enforced through predefined thresholds or truth criteria, but emerges through the persistence and recurrence of coherent relational configurations during generation.

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