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Residual Stream Patching

Technique to localize causally implicated hidden states by swapping residual stream activations between a true and false input and measuring downstream log-probability changes

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  • Residual Streamconcept0.868
    Proposed pathway flowing through layers at each position; calculates K/V values that feed horizontal information flow.
  • The intermediate representations in transformer layers whose activations are patched and probed for truth information
  • Core activation intervention: add scaled vector to residual stream at layer l during completion
  • The finite dimensional capacity of the residual stream for storing and communicating information between layers; conceptualized as being under high demand
  • Tracks cosine similarity, norm ratio, and injection direction projection across layers to measure recovery from perturbation
  • The network's tendency to actively attenuate injected perturbations over subsequent layers, erasing the signal before output
  • The specific neural network layer from which activations are extracted for probe construction and SAE training in the target models
  • The phenomenon where the residual stream communicates many more features than its dimensionality by encoding information across overlapping subspaces