Interpretability researcher flags concerns: paper mischaracterizes superposition and prior SAE work
livgorton · x · 2026-10-21
Researcher livgorton is publishing a thread of critiques of an interpretability paper. Concern 5: the paper's "recursive generalization" idea might explain learning dynamics or superposition structure, but it doesn't provide a mechanistic explanation—i.e., it can't be used to explain model behavior end to end. Concern 4: beyond the superposition definition, the paper mischaracterizes other prior work, including the author's own research on curve detectors and sparse autoencoders (SAEs).
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