@article{structurebeforecollapsetransientsemantic,
  title = {Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction},
  author = {Yize Zhao and Isabel Papadimitriou and Christos Thrampoulidis},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.26749},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26749},
}