Do induction heads and attention sinks count? Debate over interpretability's missed milestone
aryaman2020 · x · 2026-09-03
Replying to stuhlmueller's pessimism about interpretability progress, aryaman2020 questions the premise: induction heads, function vectors, and attention sinks should all count as novel algorithmic insights extracted from LLMs, so how has the field not met the 2026 goal?
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