arXiv Machine Learning

Exact ReLU realization of affine one-dimensional refinement iterates via residual memory and offset frames

arXiv:2607. 20586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study vector-valued affine refinement operators of the form [ (W\gamma)(t)=\sum_{j\in\mathbb{Z}} A_j\gamma(Mt-j)+B(t), ] with finitely supported matrix mask and compactly supported continuous piecewise linear input and forcing data.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

Expander Sparse Autoencoders: Parameter-Efficient Dictionaries for Mechanistic Interpretability

arXiv:2607. 01799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) decompose internal activations of neural networks into sparse linear combinations of learned features by fitting an overcomplete dictionary $\mathbf{W}\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ with $m<n$, and inferring a sparse code $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $\mathbf{h}\approx\mathbf{W}\mathbf{x}$.

By Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

LayerNorm as Implicit Gain Control in Looped Transformers

arXiv:2607. 10681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In pre-LayerNorm looped transformers, LayerNorm inside the recurrent block acts as an implicit gain controller: by coupling the block's local Lipschitz constant inversely to the activation scale, it renders the recurrence Jacobian non-normal -- asymptotically contractive at every verified fixed point even where its operator norm exceeds 1 -- so the true stability budget is the spectral margin, not an operator-norm bound.

By Matthias M. M. Buehlmaier