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cs.LG2025

Relating Piecewise Linear Kolmogorov Arnold Networks to ReLU Networks

Nandi Schoots, Mattia Jacopo Villani, Niels uit de Bos

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks are a new family of neural network architectures which holds promise for overcoming the curse of dimensionality and has interpretability benefits (arXiv:…

cs.LG2025

Studying Cross-cluster Modularity in Neural Networks

Satvik Golechha, Maheep Chaudhary, Joan Velja +2

An approach to improve neural network interpretability is via clusterability, i.e., splitting a model into disjoint clusters that can be studied independently. We define a measure…

cs.LG2025★ 9 cited

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson +26

Mechanistic interpretability aims to understand the computational mechanisms underlying neural networks' capabilities in order to accomplish concrete scientific and engineering goa…

cs.LG2024

The Propensity for Density in Feed-forward Models

Nandi Schoots, Alex Jackson, Ali Kholmovaia +2

Does the process of training a neural network to solve a task tend to use all of the available weights even when the task could be solved with fewer weights? To address this questi…

cs.LG2024

Training Neural Networks for Modularity aids Interpretability

Satvik Golechha, Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots

An approach to improve network interpretability is via clusterability, i.e., splitting a model into disjoint clusters that can be studied independently. We find pretrained models t…

cs.LG2024

Extending Activation Steering to Broad Skills and Multiple Behaviours

Teun van der Weij, Massimo Poesio, Nandi Schoots

Current large language models have dangerous capabilities, which are likely to become more problematic in the future. Activation steering techniques can be used to reduce risks fro…

cs.LG2024

Dissecting Language Models: Machine Unlearning via Selective Pruning

Nicholas Pochinkov, Nandi Schoots

Understanding and shaping the behaviour of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly important as applications become more powerful and more frequently adopted. This paper intro…

cs.LG2023

Comparing Optimization Targets for Contrast-Consistent Search

Hugo Fry, Seamus Fallows, Ian Fan +2

We investigate the optimization target of Contrast-Consistent Search (CCS), which aims to recover the internal representations of truth of a large language model. We present a new…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Any Deep ReLU Network is Shallow

Mattia Jacopo Villani, Nandi Schoots

We constructively prove that every deep ReLU network can be rewritten as a functionally identical three-layer network with weights valued in the extended reals. Based on this proof…

cs.LG2023

Low-Entropy Latent Variables Hurt Out-of-Distribution Performance

Nandi Schoots, Dylan Cope

We study the relationship between the entropy of intermediate representations and a model's robustness to distributional shift. We train models consisting of two feed-forward netwo…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Learning to Communicate with Strangers via Channel Randomisation Methods

Dylan Cope, Nandi Schoots

We introduce two methods for improving the performance of agents meeting for the first time to accomplish a communicative task. The methods are: (1) `message mutation' during the g…