A "Lay" Introduction to "On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition"

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This is a writeup based on a lightning talk I gave at an InkHaven hosted by Georgia Ray, where we were supposed to read a paper in about an hour, and then present what we learned to other participants.Introduction and BackgroundSo. I foolishly thought I could read a theoretical machine learning paper in an hour because it was in my area of expertise. Unfortunately, it turns out that theoretical CS professors know a lot of math and theoretical CS results that they reference constantly in their wo...

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