arXiv:2512.24102cs.LG2025-12被引 1

研究潜在空间自回归对语言模型结构的影响,发现它能提升长期稳定性。

Autoregressivity in the Latent Space of a GP-VAE Language Model: An Empirical Ablation Study

  • 将序列结构移至潜在空间,用因果高斯过程建模潜在变量的自回归关系。
  • 在中等规模语料上,有潜在自回归时潜变量轨迹更符合先验,长期行为更稳定。
  • 结果揭示潜在自回归是组织长程结构的有效机制,适合关注表征设计的研究者。

本文基于先前提出的架构,对GP-VAE模型中的潜在自回归进行了消融分析。传统语言模型依赖于词元层面的自回归分解,而我们此前提出将序列结构转移到潜在空间,通过因果高斯过程实现,并采用非自回归解码器。本文系统比较了三种设置:(i) 具有潜在自回归动态的完整GP-VAE模型,(ii) 潜在变量独立的非自回归消融版本,(iii) 标准的词元级自回归Transformer。结果表明,在所考虑的中等规模语料与短训练上下文条件下,潜在自回归能生成与高斯过程先验更兼容的潜在轨迹,并展现出更强的长程稳定性;反之,去除自回归会导致潜在结构退化和不稳定的长程行为。这些发现强调了潜在自回归作为组织长程结构的有效机制,且与词元级自回归建模具有互补性。研究应被理解为对表征结构的实证分析,而非提出新架构。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper provides an ablation-based analysis of latent autoregression in GP-VAE models, building upon our previous work introducing the architecture. Language models typically rely on an autoregressive factorization over tokens. In contrast, our prior work proposed shifting sequential structure to the latent space through a causal Gaussian process, while using a non-autoregressive decoder. Here, we conduct a systematic ablation study of the role played by latent autoregression. We compare (i) a full GP-VAE model with autoregressive latent dynamics, (ii) a non-autoregressive ablation in which latent variables are independent, and (iii) a standard token-level autoregressive Transformer. Our results show that, within the considered regime (medium-scale corpora and short training contexts), latent autoregression induces latent trajectories that are significantly more compatible with the Gaussian-process prior and exhibit greater long-horizon stability. In contrast, removing autoregression leads to degraded latent structure and unstable long-range behavior. These findings highlight the role of latent autoregression as an effective mechanism for organizing long-range structure, while remaining complementary to token-level autoregressive modeling. They should be interpreted as an empirical analysis of representational structure rather than as a proposal for a new architecture.

潜在空间自回归表征学习高斯过程

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