In search of natural features

·LessWrong··

I'm sharing preliminary results of a suite of experiments I ran with claudecode on a small LLM (gpt2-small, no Layer Norm version, courtesy of Apollo research. most of these are on the layer-6 MLP). The github repo for the experiments is here. The success of these experiments given the method's simplicity surprised me, and I would appreciate criticism and bug-finders.This is the headline result. This is not an abstract cartoon, but an exact experimental graph. Yes, I will explain.The key idea in...

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