EP314: Why AI hacks its own geometry

Title: All Routes Lead to Collapse Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22325v1 Summary: This paper presents a foundational geometric analysis demonstrating that representation collapse and attention sinks are inherent to content-based routing across diverse architectures, not just transformers. By showing this pathology persists in selective state-space models and recurrent mixers, it establishes crucial mathematical constraints for designing future architectural primitives.