LAG-XAI: A Lie-Inspired Affine Geometric Framework for Interpretable Paraphrasing in Transformer Latent Spaces

作者：O. Mazurets, O. Barmak, L. Bedratyuk, I. Krak · 发表于：arXiv.org · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.48550/arxiv.2604.06086 · 研究领域：Computer Science

Modern Transformer-based language models achieve strong performance in natural language processing tasks, yet their latent semantic spaces remain largely uninterpretable black boxes. This paper introduces LAG-XAI (Lie Affine Geometry for Explainable AI), a novel geometric framework that models paraphrasing not as discrete word substitutions, but as a structured affine transformation within the embedding space. By conceptualizing paraphrasing as a continuous geometric flow on a semantic manifold, we propose a computationally efficient mean-field approximation, inspired by local Lie group actions. This allows us to decompose paraphrase transitions into geometrically interpretable components: rotation, deformation, and translation. Experiments on the noisy PIT-2015 Twitter corpus, encoded with Sentence-BERT, reveal a"linear transparency"phenomenon. The proposed affine operator achieves an AUC of 0.7713. By normalizing against random chance (AUC 0.5), the model captures approximately 80% of the non-linear baseline's effective classification capacity (AUC 0.8405), offering explicit parametric interpretability in exchange for a marginal drop in absolute accuracy. The model identifies fundamental geometric invariants, including a stable matrix reconfiguration angle (~27.84{\deg}) and near-zero deformation, indicating local isometry. Cross-domain generalization is confirmed via direct cross-corpus validation on an independent TURL dataset. Furthermore, the practical utility of LAG-XA...