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V-Composition

A form of attention head composition where W_V reads from a subspace affected by a previous head, creating virtual attention heads

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  • Neel Nanda
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    External commenter; resolved apparent counterexample to linear representation hypothesis

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  • K-Composition
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    A form of attention head composition where W_K reads from a subspace affected by a previous head; central to how induction heads are implemented
  • The composition of two attention heads via V-composition, forming a new entity with its own attention pattern A^h2 * A^h1 and OV matrix W_OV^h2 * W_OV^h1

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