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Semantic Alignment of AI Models: Concept Collapse, Checkpoint Dynamics, and Cross-Lingual Transfer

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arXiv:2608.01585 (cs)
[Submitted on 3 Aug 2026]

Title:Semantic Alignment of AI Models: Concept Collapse, Checkpoint Dynamics, and Cross-Lingual Transfer

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Abstract:Language model benchmarking is a difficult task. Outcome reasoning alone does not test the model's conceptualization of language and popular open-source benchmarks are quickly saturated or ingested as training data. It is important to test the model's output, but augmenting these tests by characterizing semantic structure gives more insight to how models relate abstract concepts. However, the high dimensional embedding spaces are not easy to interpret. This work demonstrates how topological methods can be used to rigorously compare these spaces to low dimensional and interpretable baselines like ontologies and curated knowledge graphs. These multi-modal alignment tests make it possible to track model adaptations and test phrase understanding across multiple languages.
Comments: Code available at this http URL (PyPI: persiscope)
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2608.01585 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2608.01585v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.01585
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From: Tyler Ashoff [view email]
[v1] Mon, 3 Aug 2026 01:41:04 UTC (299 KB)
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