Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers
Experiments on a carefully curated icon dataset reveal structured metonymic circuits, in which perceptual primitives dominate early layers and object-like anchors precede abstract targets, which validate that metonymic intermediates are functionally involved in grounding abstract concepts.
Jing Ding, Ziqiao Ma, Jia-Yuan Mao et al.
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