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Mechanistic estimation for wide random MLPs

May 7, 2026Alignment Forum

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This post covers joint work with Wilson Wu, George Robinson, Mike Winer, Victor Lecomte and Paul Christiano. Thanks to Geoffrey Irving and Jess Riedel for comments on the post. In ARC's latest paper, we study the following problem: given a randomly initialized multilayer perceptron (MLP), produce an

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