New grokking paper finds weight compression isn't what causes sudden generalization
paraschopra · x · 2026-11-05
A new paper on grokking challenges the popular explanation that weight compression into a low-dimensional subspace causes the sudden transition from memorization to generalization. The authors show compression accompanies grokking rather than causing it.
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