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Distributed representation

Idea that information is spread across many neurons; superposition is a subtype.

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  • Fundamental operation for causal abstraction analysis; forces neurons to take values from source inputs to create counterfactuals.

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  • Residual Stream
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    Proposed pathway flowing through layers at each position; calculates K/V values that feed horizontal information flow.

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  • The central question of whether representational geometry implies corresponding computational structure