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Summary from the authors:

-Different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space

- Injectivity is not accidental, but a structural property of language models

- Across billions of prompt pairs and several model sizes, we find no collisions: no two prompts are mapped to the same hidden states

- We introduce SipIt, an algorithm that exactly reconstructs the input from hidden states in guaranteed linear time.

- This impacts privacy, deletion, and compliance: once data enters a Transformer, it remains recoverable.

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