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NeurIPS 2026Institute of Science and TechnolInstitute of Science and TechnolIST AustriaMechanistic interpretability

Sink vs. diagonal patterns as mechanisms for attention switch and oversmoothing prevention

Sinks and diagonal patterns serve as attention switches and anti-oversmoothing mechanisms, with sinks favored in pretrained transformers due to lower representation costs.

Peter Súkeník, Cristina Lopez Amado, Christoph Lampert, Marco Mondelli

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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Learning to play with spikes. Characterizing, predicting, and engineering unsupervised plasticity rules for spiking reservoir computing

Local plasticity rules stabilize spiking reservoirs and structure representations into predictable, transferable signatures that allow direct engineering of high-performing neuromorphic algorithms.

Maciej Kania, Basile Confavreux, Tim Vogels

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

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