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concept:cross-layer-superpositionCross-layer superposition
Representation of features spread across multiple layers, complicating dictionary learning.
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- Phenomenon where models represent more features than dimensions via almost-orthogonal directions.
- Features smeared across layers cannot be fully disentangled by SAE on a single residual stream.
- Core theoretical framework: neural networks represent more features than neurons by encoding features as directions in superposition
- Theoretical model of how neural networks encode more features than dimensions, informing linear representation work.
- The state in which a dialogue agent maintains multiple possible characters simultaneously, refined as the conversation proceeds
- The phenomenon where the residual stream communicates many more features than its dimensionality by encoding information across overlapping subspaces
- The more nuanced second metaphor: LLM as simulator maintaining a superposition of possible simulacra across a multiverse of characters
- Specific phrases or sequences memorized via binary features in superposition, enabling narrow pattern matching despite few neurons