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Manoj Shakya

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arxivcs.AI2026-07-09

Attention Degradation, Function Token Anchoring, and the Limits of Attention-Based Intervention in Large Language Models

Sagar Dangal, Manoj Shakya

Mean cross-positional attention degradation is widely reported in transformer interpretability, yet whether it causally limits contextual retrieval remains untested. We present six coordinated experiments across GPT-2, LLaMA-3.2-1B/3B, OPT-1.3B, and distilgpt2. We first character…

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arxivcs.AIcs.GT2026-07-02

Deep Reinforcement Learning to Master the Asymmetric Strategy of Baghchal

Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Sagun Rai, Aaryan Shakya, Manoj Shakya

Baghchal is a two-player asymmetric board game with Nepali origins where four tigers are to capture goats and twenty goats desire to keep tigers in immobility. Although Baghchal has a complex structure which is strategic, has perfect information structure, and has cultural meanin…

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