Skepticism on Normalization Improving Interpretability
CFGeek · x · 2026-08-26
Author expresses skepticism regarding the idea that normalization aids interpretability. The argument is that normalization projects a differentiable latent space onto a hypersphere; if residual stream activations are hard to interpret, normalized ones likely remain similarly opaque.
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