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The discovery of perfect abstract equality representations that cannot be decomposed into entity representations is a foundational result informing our understanding of how symbolic and connectionist architectures coexist

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Finding Alignments Between Interpretable Causal Variables and Distributed Neural Representations

(2023) · Atticus Geiger · Zhengxuan Wu · Christopher Potts · Thomas Icard +1

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DAS achieves 100% IIA on hierarchical equality task with |N|=16, intervention size 8, Layer 1
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DAS discovers a perfect alignment between the feed-forward network and the Both Equality Relations high-level model.

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