Directional Freezing in Language Models: Residual-Trajectory Metrics for Detecting Overconfident Agreement Dynamics

Under agreement pressure, a model can undergo geometric freezing: it stays active and confident while its residual or hidden-state update trajectory loses orthogonal novelty and grows increasingly confined to a persistent direction.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-06-13
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20671544
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Speech and dialogue systems
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Directional Freezing in Language Models: Residual-Trajectory Metrics for Detecting Overconfident Agreement Dynamics

Jonas Jakob Gebendorfer
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Speech and dialogue systems
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Directional Freezing in Language Models: Residual-Trajectory Metrics for Detecting Overconfident Agreement Dynamics

Jonas Jakob Gebendorfer
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Under agreement pressure, a model can undergo geometric freezing: it stays active and confident while its residual or hidden-state update trajectory loses orthogonal novelty and grows increasingly confined to a persistent direction.

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