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William Saunders

3 papers hereh-index 3197 citations4 works total

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author position
  • middle author2
  • last author1

Across the 3 of 3 papers where every author was matched, so the position is known.

fields
  • cs.LG2
  • cs.AI1
same name
  • William Saunders — 3 papers, h 1
  • William Saunders — 1 paper, h 4

Either other researchers who publish under this name, or the same person where the external sources have not merged their records.

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activity
20242026
most citedOpen Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

9 citations · 14 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

3 papers

cs.AI2026★ 4 cited

Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model

Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders +13

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes appear to exhibit emotional reactions. We investigate why this is the case in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and explore implications for alignment-releva…

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★ 1 cited

Transformer Circuit Faithfulness Metrics are not Robust

Joseph Miller, Bilal Chughtai, William Saunders

Mechanistic interpretability work attempts to reverse engineer the learned algorithms present inside neural networks. One focus of this work has been to discover 'circuits' -- subg…

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