Visualizing Raw Activation Values Could Seed a Math Framework for Interpretability
brandon_xyzw · x · 2026-09-25
Against the critique that visualizing raw values can't advance interpretability, the author argues the point isn't to stay in raw-value space but to present values at maximum utility — showing them more readably and interactively with respect to model input.\n\nThe goal, he argues, is to surface higher-order patterns we can classify, and eventually build a mathematical framework for interpretability around them.
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