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A key step in reverse engineering neural networks is to decompose them into simpler parts that can be studied in relative isolation. Linear parameter decomposition -- a framework that has been proposed to resolve several issues with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Lucius Bushnaq , Dan Braun , Lee Sharkey

Mechanistic interpretability aims to understand the internal mechanisms learned by neural networks. Despite recent progress toward this goal, it remains unclear how best to decompose neural network parameters into mechanistic components. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Dan Braun , Lucius Bushnaq , Stefan Heimersheim , Jake Mendel , Lee Sharkey

Much of mechanistic interpretability has focused on understanding the activation spaces of large neural networks. However, activation space-based approaches reveal little about the underlying circuitry used to compute features. To better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Brianna Chrisman , Lucius Bushnaq , Lee Sharkey

We present a method for computing reduced-order models of parameterized partial differential equation solutions. The key analytical tool is the singular value expansion of the parameterized solution, which we approximate with a singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Paul G. Constantine , David F. Gleich , Yangyang Hou , Jeremy Templeton

Understanding internal representations of neural models is a core interest of mechanistic interpretability. Due to its large dimensionality, the representation space can encode various aspects about inputs. To what extent are different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinting Huang , Michael Hahn

Recent work has shown that the computations of Transformers can be simulated in the RASP family of programming languages. These findings have enabled improved understanding of the expressive capacity and generalization abilities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xinting Huang , Aleksandra Bakalova , Satwik Bhattamishra , William Merrill , Michael Hahn

Symbolic regression (SR) models complex systems by discovering mathematical expressions that capture underlying relationships in observed data. However, most SR methods prioritize minimizing prediction error over identifying the governing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Giorgio Morales , John W. Sheppard

Since the early 1900s, numerous research efforts have been devoted to developing quantitative solutions to stochastic mechanical systems. In general, the problem is perceived as solved when a complete or partial probabilistic description on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-05 Ziqi Wang , Marco Broccardo , Junho Song

We propose TPP-SD, a novel approach that accelerates Transformer temporal point process (TPP) sampling by adapting speculative decoding (SD) techniques from language models. By identifying the structural similarities between thinning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Shukai Gong , Yiyang Fu , Fengyuan Ran , Quyu Kong , Feng Zhou

Automated mechanistic interpretation research has attracted great interest due to its potential to scale explanations of neural network internals to large models. Existing automated circuit discovery work relies on activation patching or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aliyah R. Hsu , Georgia Zhou , Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Yaxuan Huang , Anobel Y. Odisho , Peter R. Carroll , Bin Yu

Understanding Transformer-based models has attracted significant attention, as they lie at the heart of recent technological advances across machine learning. While most interpretability methods rely on running models over inputs, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Guy Dar , Mor Geva , Ankit Gupta , Jonathan Berant

Prompt tuning (PT), where a small amount of trainable soft (continuous) prompt vectors is affixed to the input of language models (LM), has shown promising results across various tasks and models for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhengxiang Shi , Aldo Lipani

Transformer-based language models have achieved significant success; however, their internal mechanisms remain largely opaque due to the complexity of non-linear interactions and high-dimensional operations. While previous studies have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Lin Zhang , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Transport-dominated phenomena provide a challenge for common mode-based model reduction approaches. We present a model reduction method, which is suited for these kind of systems. It extends the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Julius Reiss , Philipp Schulze , Jörn Sesterhenn , Volker Mehrmann

We propose a method (TT-GP) for approximate inference in Gaussian Process (GP) models. We build on previous scalable GP research including stochastic variational inference based on inducing inputs, kernel interpolation, and structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Pavel Izmailov , Alexander Novikov , Dmitry Kropotov

A common method to study deep learning systems is to use simplified model representations--for example, using singular value decomposition to visualize the model's hidden states in a lower dimensional space. This approach assumes that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dan Friedman , Andrew Lampinen , Lucas Dixon , Danqi Chen , Asma Ghandeharioun

We introduce stochastic variational inference for Gaussian process models. This enables the application of Gaussian process (GP) models to data sets containing millions of data points. We show how GPs can be vari- ationally decomposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 James Hensman , Nicolo Fusi , Neil D. Lawrence

The time-dependent fields obtained by solving partial differential equations in two and more dimensions quickly overwhelm the analytical capabilities of the human brain. A meaningful insight into the temporal behaviour can be obtained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Miha Rot , Martin Horvat , Gregor Kosec

High-dimensional token embeddings underpin Large Language Models (LLMs), as they can capture subtle semantic information and significantly enhance the modelling of complex language patterns. However, this high dimensionality also introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mingxue Xu , Yao Lei Xu , Danilo P. Mandic

This paper presents a novel adaptive-sparse polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD) method for stochastic design optimization of complex systems. The method entails an adaptive-sparse PDD approximation of a high-dimensional stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Sharif Rahman , Xuchun Ren , Vaibhav Yadav
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