activity
20172025
most citedUnderstanding the Role of Individual Units in a Deep Neural Network

385 citations · 1.5k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2025Show all

7 papers · 1 filter

cs.CL2025

In-Context Algebra

Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Rohit Gandikota +1

We investigate the mechanisms that arise when transformers are trained to solve arithmetic on sequences where tokens are variables whose meaning is determined only through their in…

cs.CL2025

Vector Arithmetic in Concept and Token Subspaces

Sheridan Feucht, Byron Wallace, David Bau

In order to predict the next token, LLMs must represent semantic and surface-level information about the current word. Previous work identified two types of attention heads that di…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Encode Harmfulness and Refusal Separately

Jiachen Zhao, Jing Huang, Zhengxuan Wu +2

LLMs are trained to refuse harmful instructions, but do they truly understand harmfulness beyond just refusing? Prior work has shown that LLMs' refusal behaviors can be mediated by…

cs.CL2025

Discovering Forbidden Topics in Language Models

Can Rager, Chris Wendler, Rohit Gandikota +1

Refusal discovery is the task of identifying the full set of topics that a language model refuses to discuss. We introduce this new problem setting and develop a refusal discovery…

cs.LG2025

When Are Concepts Erased From Diffusion Models?

Kevin Lu, Nicky Kriplani, Rohit Gandikota +4

In concept erasure, a model is modified to selectively prevent it from generating a target concept. Despite the rapid development of new methods, it remains unclear how thoroughly…

cs.GR2025

Distilling Diversity and Control in Diffusion Models

Rohit Gandikota, David Bau

Distilled diffusion models generate images in far fewer timesteps but suffer from reduced sample diversity when generating multiple outputs from the same prompt. To understand this…