arXiv Machine Learning By Aryeh Brill, Tom Ingebretsen Carlson

Critical Percolation as a Synthetic Data Model for Interpretability

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arXiv:2606. 20347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks learn features that reflect the hierarchical, multi-scale structure of natural data.

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