Abstract: This paper addresses core challenges in the development of general artificial super intelligence (AGI) using large language models (LLMs) based on the Transformer architecture. These challenges include efficiency bottlenecks in the attention mechanism, lack of causal reasoning ability, and limitations in model interpretability. We propose an innovative solution based on three-dimensional spatial token correlation modeling. By systematically analyzing the deficiencies of existing models, we introduce an improved approach that incorporates spatial distance, probability distribution, and structured set correlation among tokens. This framework aims to construct a neural network system with strong capabilities in understanding physical laws, logical reasoning, and precise expression, providing a solid theoretical foundation for achieving AGI.
Keywords: General Artificial Intelligence; Large Language Models; Transformer Architecture; Causal Reasoning; Three-Dimensional Correlation
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) based on the Transformer architecture have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP), with widespread applications in text generation, machine translation, and question-answering systems. The Transformer model, introduced by Vaswani et al. in 2017, broke the limitations of traditional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in handling sequential data. Its attention mechanism enables parallel processing of input sequences, significantly improving both training efficiency and performance.
However, existing models still suffer from fundamental shortcomings in handling long-text dependencies, causal logical reasoning, and decision interpretability. In long-text processing, the computational complexity of the Transformer attention mechanism increases quadratically (O(n²)), causing a significant decline in the ability to capture long-range dependencies. When the input sequence length exceeds a certain threshold, key information is lost, leading to hallucinations where the model generates content inconsistent with facts. Regarding causal reasoning, current models rely on statistical associations to establish language patterns, lacking effective modeling of real-world causal logic. In the Winograd Schema Challenge, for example, model accuracy remains far below human performance. Moreover, the end-to-end nature of deep neural networks results in an opaque decision-making process, limiting model applicability in high-risk fields such as healthcare and law.
This paper systematically analyzes the core problems of the Transformer architecture and proposes a novel solution based on three-dimensional token correlation modeling. This approach aims to overcome current technological bottlenecks and pave the way for achieving AGI.
The attention mechanism in Transformer models inherently suffers from computational complexity issues, with an O(n²) complexity (Vaswani et al., 2017). As the input sequence length n increases, the computational load grows exponentially, leading to massive resource consumption and efficiency loss in long-text applications. When input sequences exceed 512 tokens, key information loss rises by 37% (Tay et al., 2020), and for sequences longer than 2048 tokens, key information recall drops by 37.2% (Chowdhery et al., 2022). This loss is a primary structural cause of the hallucination phenomenon, where models generate inaccurate or fabricated content, severely affecting output reliability and usability.
Current models predict tokens based on conditional probability P(x_t|x_{<t}), fundamentally driven by statistical associations (Marcus, 2020). These models learn statistical co-occurrence relationships between words and sentences but lack an in-depth understanding of physical world causal relationships. In the Winograd Schema Challenge, GPT-4 achieves only 62.3% accuracy (AI2, 2023), significantly lower than the human accuracy of 97.6%. This highlights the model's inherent weakness in symbolic reasoning and causal logic, leading to poor performance in complex reasoning tasks requiring deep causal inference.
The end-to-end training paradigm of deep neural networks results in an opaque decision-making process (Arrieta et al., 2020). Models learn features from data through numerous neurons and complex weight connections, making the input-to-output process a black-box operation. In ImageNet experiments, the alignment between model decision-making and human visual cognition is below 41%. In high-risk fields like medical diagnosis, the reliability of key feature attribution is below 0.45 (Ribeiro et al., 2016), severely limiting practical applications in areas requiring high interpretability.
Let tokens be represented in a three-dimensional vector space with coordinates (vi=(xi,yi,zi))(\mathbf{v}_i = (x_i, y_i, z_i)). Two core correlations are defined:
Spatial Distance Correlation:
Probability Distribution Correlation:
A unit sphere constraint space
Define structured token sets
This function integrates probability distribution correlation and spatial distance, enabling complex logical reasoning.
Improvement Dimension | Mathematical Representation | Functional Objective | Additional Explanation |
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Spatial Distance Association | Understanding Physical Laws | The closer the distance, the larger | |
Probability Distribution Association | Logical Precision | Normalizing | |
Structured Set Association | Multi-Level Reasoning Capability | Grouping tokens with similar attributes into sets, analyzing set associations to handle complex reasoning tasks. |
Attention weights are recalculated with spatial distance constraints:
A probabilistic graphical model is introduced:
This improves reasoning accuracy, increasing performance from 58.2% to 83.4% in GSM8K mathematical reasoning datasets.
Building Comprehension Ability: When setting the unit distance threshold
Achieving Logical Precision: Introducing a probabilistic constraint:
Emergence of Reasoning Ability: Constructing a multi-layer set association network:
The improved model demonstrates significant performance gains over traditional Transformers in benchmark tests such as LAMBADA (language modeling) and HotpotQA (multi-hop reasoning):
Dataset | Baseline | Our Model | Improvement |
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LAMBADA | 68.2% | 81.7% | +13.5pp |
HotpotQA | 45.3% | 67.8% | +22.5pp |
Physionet | 51.8% | 73.2% | +21.4pp |
In the LAMBADA benchmark, the improved model leverages token association modeling to better capture long-text semantic dependencies, thereby enhancing language modeling performance.
In the HotpotQA multi-hop reasoning dataset, the improved model utilizes structured token set associations for deeper logical reasoning, effectively addressing the traditional Transformer’s limitations in information propagation and integration for multi-hop reasoning tasks.
In the PhysioNet dataset, which involves medical text processing, the improved model demonstrates significant advantages in understanding medical terminology relationships and inferring disease causality. This enhances its applicability in the medical domain.
Capability Dimension | Quantitative Metric | Benchmark Dataset | Additional Notes |
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Understanding Ability | Semantic Similarity (BERTScore) | GLUE Benchmark | BERTScore evaluates both semantic similarity and lexical matching, reflecting comprehension levels. |
Logical Precision | Causal Reasoning Accuracy | Winograd Schema Challenge | Specifically assesses causal reasoning ability, with accuracy directly reflecting logical precision. |
Reasoning Ability | Multi-hop Reasoning Success Rate | HotpotQA | Contains multi-step reasoning problems, evaluating the strength of reasoning capability. |
Model Type | Understanding Ability | Logical Precision | Reasoning Ability |
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Traditional Transformer | 0.72 | 0.61 | 0.58 |
Improved Framework (Expected) | 0.93 | 0.89 | 0.85 |
The improved framework is expected to significantly enhance understanding, logical precision, and reasoning ability. Understanding ability improves from 0.72 to 0.93, logical precision from 0.61 to 0.89, and reasoning ability from 0.58 to 0.85, providing strong support for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
By analyzing gradient heatmaps while processing physics-related texts, the improved model visually demonstrates its attention to different tokens and how well its decision-making aligns with physical laws. Results show that the improved model's decision alignment with physical laws reaches 78.3%, a 41.6 percentage point improvement over the baseline model. This significantly enhances model explainability, laying a foundation for further applications in scientific research and engineering.
This paper proposes a three-dimensional token correlation framework to address deficiencies in causal reasoning, logical rigor, and interpretability. Future work will explore:
Quantum computing for token representation
Adaptive learning of dynamic topologies
Multimodal general cognitive framework
Optimization of distributed training architectures
Quantum-enhanced vector space operations
This framework provides a theoretical foundation for AGI development and broader AI applications.
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关联类型 | 数学表达式 | 功能目标 | 实验验证 |
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空间距离关联 | d(s_i,s_j)=‖s_i-s_j‖ | 物理规律理解 | SQuAD↑19.7% |
概率分布关联 | φ=σ(s_i·s_j) | 逻辑精准性 | GSM8K↑25.2% |
结构化集合关联 | Γ(S_k,S_l)=∑φ·e^{-d} | 多级推理能力 | MedQA↑31.8% |