@article{residualconnectionsandthecausalshiftunco, title = {Residual Connections and the Causal Shift: Uncovering a Structural Misalignment in Transformers}, author = {Jonathan Lys and Vincent Gripon and Bastien Pasdeloup and Axel Marmoret and Lukas Mauch and Fabien Cardinaux and Ghouthi Boukli Hacene}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.14760}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14760}, }