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Olah, Chris, Mordvintsev, Alexander, Schubert, Ludwig·2017·Distill

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  • For many large models, semantically meaningful directions align with individual neurons.

    “Serendipitously, it turns out that for many large models, semantically meaningful directions align with individual neurons.”

    From Mechanistic interpretability for steering vision-language-action models (2025) · cites this paper as [9]

    In “Interaction between Neurons” (no page number), the paper describes individual neurons as basis directions and says those directions seem interpretable more often than random directions. It does not establish this for “many large models,” and it cautions that random directions can also be meaningful and neurons may not be the right semantic units. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Authors
Olah, C., Mordvintsev, A., & Schubert, L.
Affiliations
Google (United States) (US)
Venue
Distill
Published
2017-11-07
Volume
2
Issue
11
ISSN
2476-0757 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4229494842
Cited by
880
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 66 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 105 · 2023: 137 · 2022: 133 · 2021: 120 · 2020: 104 · 2019: 68 · 2018: 41 · 2017: 2
FWCI
35.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
Distill (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
Keywords
feature visualization, neural network interpretability, activation maps, model explainability

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