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Mechanistic Estimation Beats Sampling for Wide MLPs

Mechanistic Estimation Beats Sampling for Wide MLPs
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💡Exact MLP output estimates without sampling—faster interpretability for alignment researchers.

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What Changed

Mechanistic estimate for random MLP outputs without model execution

Why It Matters

Advances alignment research by enabling precise, efficient analysis at initialization, potentially extensible to trained models for better interpretability.

What To Do Next

Clone the mlp_cumulant_propagation repo and test estimation on your wide random MLPs.

Who should care:Researchers & Academics

Key Points

  • Mechanistic estimate for random MLP outputs without model execution
  • Higher accuracy than sampling for wide models, proven theoretically
  • Open-source code in mlp_cumulant_propagation GitHub repo
  • Base case for broader mechanistic interpretability goals
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