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Geometric Properties of the Voronoi Tessellation in Latent Semantic Manifolds of Large Language Models

arXiv 2604.06767 ↗First posted 8 Apr 2026cs.LG cs.CLcited by 0

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Language models operate on discrete tokens but compute in continuous vector spaces, inducing a Voronoi tessellation over the representation manifold. We study this tessellation empirically on Qwen3.5-4B-Base, making two contributions. First, using float32 margin recomputation to resolve bfloat16 quantization artifacts, we validate Mabrok's (2026) linear scaling law of the expressibility gap with R2 = 0.9997 - the strongest confirmation to date - and identify a mid-layer geometric ambiguity regime where margin geometry is anti-correlated with cross-entropy (layers 24-28, ρ = -0.29) before crystallizing into alignment at the final layer (ρ = 0.836). Second, we show that the Voronoi tessellation of a converged model is reshapable through margin refinement procedures (MRP): short post-hoc optimization runs that widen token-decision margins without retraining. We compare direct margin maximization against Fisher information distance maximization across a dose-response sweep. Both methods find the same ceiling of ~16,300 correctable positions per 256K evaluated, but differ critically in collateral damage. Margin maximization damage escalates with intervention strength until corrections are overwhelmed. Fisher damage remains constant at ~5,300 positions across the validated range (λ = 0.15-0.6), achieving +28% median margin improvement at λ = 0.6 with invariant downstream benchmarks - a geometric reorganization that compresses the expressibility gap while preserving its scaling law. However, frequency and token-class audits reveal that gains concentrate in high-frequency structural tokens (84% of net corrections at λ = 0.6), with content and entity-like contributions shrinking at higher λ. Fisher MRP is therefore a viable geometric polishing tool whose practical ceiling is set not by aggregate damage but by the uniformity of token-level benefit.

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