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- @leenacvankadara.bsky.social (UCL)
- Netta Cohen (Uni of Leeds)
- @docqhuys.bsky.social (UCL)
- @kenneth-harris.bsky.social (UCL)
- @laklab.bsky.social (Oxford)
- @nathanieldaw.bsky.social (Princeton)

Thank you! Yes, I think that’s a fair summary. Another way of looking at it is that pre training on a match and copy task gives it a hint in the “wrong” direction. Our takeaway is that what the transformer learns to implement in-context depends on the pretraining task

Check out the Psych Review paper here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

read the full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2506.04289

Many thanks to coauthors @scychan.bsky.social, @clopathlab.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social !