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Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions

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Main Authors:	Ma, Nicole, Rui, Nick
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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