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PublishedOctober 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Stop Probing, Start Coding: Why Linear Probes and Sparse Autoencoders Fail at Compositional Generalisation
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arXiv:2603.28744v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The linear representation hypothesis states that neural network activations encode high-level concepts as linear mixtures. However, under superposition, this encoding is a projection from a higher-dimensional concept space into a lower-dimensional
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