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Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit against unembedding directions

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Scores and selects specialized attention heads by sparsely reconstructing a batch of real head activations as a small combination of unembedding-matrix (vocabulary) directions via Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (SOMP) -- a multi-sample generalization of the Logit Lens that greedily selects the token direction most correlated with the current residual across all samples at once, rather than one sample at a time.

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structure: Linear Direction · models: Mistral-7B, LLaVA-NeXT-7B, LLaVA-NeXT-13B, Gemma 3 12B IT, Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct · paper: Head Pursuit: Probing Attention Specialization in Multimodal Transformers