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[Submitted on 3 Oct 2026] Title:Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers View a PDF of the paper titled Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers, by Jing Ding and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We study how Vision Transformers ground abstract concepts (e.g., angry) when training data provide limited direct referential evidence. We hypothesize a metonymic grounding mechanism in which abstract predictions are driven by concrete, interpretable anchor concepts (e.g., fire) that bridge visual signals to abstract semantics. By applying Transcoders on CLIP and DINO vision encoders, we recover intermediate features that can be associated with semantic labels for more concrete concepts, and trace their contributions in circuits underlying abstract concept recognition. Experiments on a carefully curated icon dataset reveal structured metonymic circuits, in which perceptual primitives dominate early layers and object-like anchors precede abstract targets. Images containing rendered text instead recruit a distinct perceptual-to-textual route. Causal interventions further validate that metonymic intermediates are functionally involved in grounding abstract concepts. Comments: EMNLP 2026 Main. Project Website: this https URL Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.06928 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2610.06928v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.06928 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Jing Ding [view email] [v1] Sat, 3 Oct 2026 00:53:32 UTC (3,894 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Metonymic Circuits for Abstract Concept Grounding in Vision Transformers, by Jing Ding and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.AI new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)