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cs.LG2026
Cost Accounting for Reactive Computational Graphs: Exhaustive Sweeps, Sequential Mutation, and the Backward-Locality Gap
Abdallah Khemais
Exhaustive site-by-site interventions on a neural network's computational graph -- activation-patching sweeps, circuit-discovery searches, systematic ablation studies -- mutate the…
cs.LG2026
A Theory of Conditional Collapse under Low-Rank Weight-Space Ablations: I. The Single-Block Theory and Synthetic Validation
Abdallah Khemais
Activation patching and weight-space ablation both claim a component is causally responsible for a behavior, yet they act on different objects: one forward pass versus the paramete…