Natural language autoencoders: a research result that defies intuition
SeanPedersen96 · x · 2026-09-04
Researcher Dan Robinson shared the finding that most makes him question his research intuition: natural language autoencoders.
- The setup: jointly train two models — one translating activations into English, one translating English back into activations
- The objectives are entangled: the second model inverts the first, while the first is trained to be invertible by the second
- Robinson says he would not have expected this to work as well as it does
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