Expert domains are trees; the Euclidean transformer is not, diluting parent-child structure exponentially at depth. The hyperbolic turn left one question unasked: not how much of a network to curve, but where curvature may touch the gradient. Placement is a law, not a knob: the s…
Whether a language model behaves as it claims is a judgement on which independent human raters cannot agree (Fleiss kappa = 0.074). We show that a small, purpose-built instrument does better. A linear read-out of the frozen representation of a from-scratch 146-million-parameter a…