Catherine (Qiyao)Liang.

The emergence of intelligence — in machines, in brains, in life itself.

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  1. 2026

    Attractor Geometry of Transformer Memory: From Conflict Arbitration to Confident Hallucination

    Qiyao Liang, Risto Miikkulainen, Ila Fiete

    arXiv preprint

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  2. 2026

    The Blessing of Dimensionality in LLM Fine-tuning: A Variance-Curvature Perspective

    Qiyao Liang, Jinyeop Song, Yizhou Liu, Jeff Gore, Ila Fiete, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu

    arXiv preprint

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  3. 2025

    Modular connectivity in neural networks emerges from Poisson noise-motivated regularisation, and promotes robustness and compositional generalisation

    Daoyuan Qian, Qiyao Liang, Ila Fiete

    arXiv preprint

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