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Compressibility Measures Complexity: Minimum Description Length Meets Singular Learning Theory
Einar Urdshals, Edmund Lau, Jesse Hoogland +2
We study neural network compressibility by using singular learning theory to extend the minimum description length (MDL) principle to singular models like neural networks. Through…
Embryology of a Language Model
George Wang, Garrett Baker, Andrew Gordon +1
Understanding how language models develop their internal computational structure is a central problem in the science of deep learning. While susceptibilities, drawn from statistica…
Modes of Sequence Models and Learning Coefficients
Zhongtian Chen, Daniel Murfet
We develop a geometric account of sequence modelling that links patterns in the data to measurable properties of the loss landscape in transformer networks. First, we cast conditio…
Programs as Singularities
Daniel Murfet, Will Troiani
We develop a correspondence between the structure of Turing machines and the structure of singularities of real analytic functions, based on connecting the Ehrhard-Regnier derivati…
Structural Inference: Interpreting Small Language Models with Susceptibilities
Garrett Baker, George Wang, Jesse Hoogland +1
We develop a linear response framework for interpretability that treats a neural network as a Bayesian statistical mechanical system. A small perturbation of the data distribution,…
You Are What You Eat -- AI Alignment Requires Understanding How Data Shapes Structure and Generalisation
Simon Pepin Lehalleur, Jesse Hoogland, Matthew Farrugia-Roberts +5
In this position paper, we argue that understanding the relation between structure in the data distribution and structure in trained models is central to AI alignment. First, we di…
Dynamics of Transient Structure in In-Context Linear Regression Transformers
Liam Carroll, Jesse Hoogland, Matthew Farrugia-Roberts +1
Modern deep neural networks display striking examples of rich internal computational structure. Uncovering principles governing the development of such structure is a priority for…
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…