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Equation 26 · Part 1 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect

Symbol phi_sink

ϕsink\phi_{\mathrm{sink}}
ϕsink\phi_{\mathrm{sink}}

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…whether to trust an LLM-as-judge system on an unlabeled ranking task needs to know that position matters and how much, not why it matters, and the paper answers the “how much” question rigorously regardless of how the ϕsink\phi_{\mathrm{sink}} measurement eventually comes out. Nor does the countermodel explain everything the paper reports: the appendix’s own finding that neither model size nor architecture family significantly predicts which specific type of effect appears is, on a well-behaved sub-model like the…

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