arXiv:2606. 12923v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI alignment, interpretability, steering, and neural perturbation studies identify order-inducing objects.
By Gareth Seneque, Lap-Hang Ho, Nafise Erfanian Saeedi, Jeffrey Molendijk, Tim Elson
NeuronSifter is a framework for planning interventions in central nervous system microenvironments by converting treatment regimens into state‑conditional target‑occupancy fields and propagating them through microenvironment dynamics. It selects measurements based on their expected reduction in intervention loss, integrating typed outcomes into a unified posterior. In synthetic Alzheimer’s disease scenarios, occupancy conditioning improves trajectory probability scores and intervention ordering accuracy, and decision‑directed acquisition reduces terminal risk compared to a Bayesian experimental design planner.
By Haowei Xu, Wanyi Fu, Hongbin Han, Zhaoheng Xie
arXiv:2608. 19338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability seeks quantities that models do not expose directly: represented states, component effects, interactions, and responses to interventions.
By Vijay Erramilli
arXiv:2606. 19831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aligned language models gate behaviors such as refusal and language routing through sparse feed forward neurons, yet no theory predicts when a single neuron intervention controls a behavior coherently rather than collapsing the output.
By Hongliang Liu
ObserverBench is a benchmark framework that evaluates whether internal mechanistic estimators—called observers—are suitable for guiding interventions, control, or safety actions in language models. It separates estimation accuracy from the loss incurred by the chosen action, showing that accurate predictions do not always lead to better decisions. Experiments on GPT‑2‑small, Qwen2.5‑7B, Gemma‑2‑9B‑it, and Qwen3.5‑9B demonstrate that observers trained on action loss can reduce deployment loss, while traditional metrics like AUROC may rank monitors differently from actual performance.
By Vijay Erramilli
arXiv:2607. 27849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An open-weight LLM can write composition setpoints every five minutes.
By Christian Rosenthal