convergence-robustness-thresholds-cka-variance-prompt-sensitivity

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The convergence study reports CKA variance < 0.008 and prompt sensitivity < 4% as robustness thresholds (Appendix B).

Summary

This sets two concrete stability benchmarks from a convergence experiment: the model's internal representations barely shift across runs (variance under 0.008) and rewording a prompt changes them by less than 4 percent. Anything above those numbers would signal that the model's internal structure is no longer stable enough to treat as a fixed reference point.