基本信息
- 来源: arxiv
- 原始来源: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00986v1
- 作者: Guowei Xu, Mert Yuksekgonul, James Zou
- 分类: cs.CL
- 论文时间: 2026-02-01T02:55:31Z
- 论文 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00986v1.pdf
来源摘要/节选
In this paper, we identify a sparse reward subsystem within the hidden states of Large Language Models (LLMs), drawing an analogy to the biological reward subsystem in the human brain. We demonstrate that this subsystem contains value neurons that represent the model’s internal expectation of state value, and through intervention experiments, we establish the importance of these neurons for reasoning. Our experiments reveal that these value neurons are robust across diverse datasets, model scales, and architectures; furthermore, they exhibit significant transferability across different datasets and models fine-tuned from the same base model. By examining cases where value predictions and actual rewards diverge, we identify dopamine neurons within the reward subsystem which encode reward prediction errors (RPE). These neurons exhibit high activation when the reward is higher than expected and low activation when the reward is lower than expected.
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