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The Quadrilateral Loss: Additivity as a Measurable Behavior of Dense Neural Networks

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arXiv:2607. 20201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Additive models buy interpretability by forbidding feature interactions, a constraint that neural instantiations enforce architecturally.

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