# Research Fundamental interpretability research to understand and intentionally design advanced AI systems ## Fundamental Research ### Uncovering Neural Geometry in Vision Models With Block-Sparse Featurizers Fel et al. · July 7, 2026 ### Uncovering Neural Geometry in Vision Models With Block-Sparse Featurizers Fel et al. · July 7, 2026 ### Meandering on Manifolds: The Neural Geometry of Stories Over Time Bigelow et al. · June 23, 2026 ### Meandering on Manifolds: The Neural Geometry of Stories Over Time Bigelow et al. · June 23, 2026 ### Predictive Data Debugging: Reveal and Shape What Your Model Learns, Before You Train Bergen et al. · June 11, 2026 ### Predictive Data Debugging: Reveal and Shape What Your Model Learns, Before You Train Bergen et al. · June 11, 2026 ### Logits as a new monitor for evaluation awareness Santiago Aranguri · June 4, 2026 ### Logits as a new monitor for evaluation awareness Santiago Aranguri · June 4, 2026 ### Why Larger Models Learn More: Effects of Capacity, Interference, and Rare-Task Retention Huang et al. · June 1, 2026 ### Why Larger Models Learn More: Effects of Capacity, Interference, and Rare-Task Retention Huang et al. · June 1, 2026 ### Can SAEs Capture Neural Geometry? Bhalla et al. · May 21, 2026 ### Can SAEs Capture Neural Geometry? Bhalla et al. · May 21, 2026 ### A Geometric Calculator Inside a Neural Network Feucht et al. · May 14, 2026 ### A Geometric Calculator Inside a Neural Network Feucht et al. · May 14, 2026 ### Predicting Rare LLM Failures with 30× Fewer Rollouts Aranguri & Pernice · May 13, 2026 ### Predicting Rare LLM Failures with 30× Fewer Rollouts Aranguri & Pernice · May 13, 2026 ### Steering Along Manifolds to Control Neural Networks Wurgaft et al. · May 7, 2026 ### Steering Along Manifolds to Control Neural Networks Wurgaft et al. · May 7, 2026 ### The World Inside Neural Networks Geiger et al. · May 7, 2026 ### The World Inside Neural Networks Geiger et al. · May 7, 2026 ### Paper Summary: Interpreting Language Model Parameters Bushnaq et al. · May 5, 2026 ### Paper Summary: Interpreting Language Model Parameters Bushnaq et al. · May 5, 2026 ### Interpreting Language Model Parameters Bushnaq et al. · May 5, 2026 ### Interpreting Language Model Parameters Bushnaq et al. · May 5, 2026 ### Verbalized Eval Awareness Inflates Measured Safety Aranguri and Bloom · May 4, 2026 ### Verbalized Eval Awareness Inflates Measured Safety Aranguri and Bloom · May 4, 2026 ### Probe-Based Data Attribution: Surfacing and Mitigating Undesirable Behaviors in LLM Post-Training Xiao and Aranguri · April 29, 2026 ### Probe-Based Data Attribution: Surfacing and Mitigating Undesirable Behaviors in LLM Post-Training Xiao and Aranguri · April 29, 2026 ### Explaining 4.2 million genetic variants with state-of-the-art, interpretable predictions Pearce et al. · April 14, 2026 ### Explaining 4.2 million genetic variants with state-of-the-art, interpretable predictions Pearce et al. · April 14, 2026 ### Covariance-based Sequence Pooling Dooms et al. · April 10, 2026 ### Covariance-based Sequence Pooling Dooms et al. · April 10, 2026 ### Using Self-Correcting Search to Accelerate Materials Discovery Hazra et al. · April 1, 2026 ### Using Self-Correcting Search to Accelerate Materials Discovery Hazra et al. · April 1, 2026 ### Reasoning Theater: Probing for Performative Chain-of-Thought Boppana et al. · March 12, 2026 ### Reasoning Theater: Probing for Performative Chain-of-Thought Boppana et al. · March 12, 2026 ### Features as Rewards: Using Interpretability to Reduce Hallucinations Prasad et al. · February 11, 2026 ### Features as Rewards: Using Interpretability to Reduce Hallucinations Prasad et al. · February 11, 2026 ### Using Interpretability to Identify a Novel Class of Alzheimer's Biomarkers Wang et al. · January 28, 2026 ### Using Interpretability to Identify a Novel Class of Alzheimer's Biomarkers Wang et al. · January 28, 2026 ### Understanding Memorization via Loss Curvature Merullo et al. · November 6, 2025 ### Understanding Memorization via Loss Curvature Merullo et al. · November 6, 2025 ### Priors in Time: Missing Inductive Biases for Language Model Interpretability Lubana et al. · November 3, 2025 ### Priors in Time: Missing Inductive Biases for Language Model Interpretability Lubana et al. · November 3, 2025 ### Belief Dynamics Reveal the Dual Nature of In-Context Learning and Activation Steering Bigelow et al. · November 1, 2025 ### Belief Dynamics Reveal the Dual Nature of In-Context Learning and Activation Steering Bigelow et al. · November 1, 2025 ### Deploying Interpretability to Production with Rakuten: SAE Probes for PII Detection Nguyen et al. · October 28, 2025 ### Deploying Interpretability to Production with Rakuten: SAE Probes for PII Detection Nguyen et al. · October 28, 2025 ### Mixing Mechanisms: How Language Models Retrieve Bound Entities In-Context Gur-Arieh et al. · October 7, 2025 ### Mixing Mechanisms: How Language Models Retrieve Bound Entities In-Context Gur-Arieh et al. · October 7, 2025 ### Understanding Sparse Autoencoder Scaling in the Presence of Feature Manifolds Michaud et al. · September 4, 2025 ### Understanding Sparse Autoencoder Scaling in the Presence of Feature Manifolds Michaud et al. · September 4, 2025 ### Finding the Tree of Life in Evo 2 Pearce et al. · August 28, 2025 ### Finding the Tree of Life in Evo 2 Pearce et al. · August 28, 2025 ### Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Superposition Gorton & Lewis · August 26, 2025 ### Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Superposition Gorton & Lewis · August 26, 2025 ### Discovering Undesired Rare Behaviors via Model Diff Amplification Aranguri & McGrath · August 21, 2025 ### Discovering Undesired Rare Behaviors via Model Diff Amplification Aranguri & McGrath · August 21, 2025 ### The Circuits Research Landscape: Results and Perspectives Lindsey et al. · August 5, 2025 ### The Circuits Research Landscape: Results and Perspectives Lindsey et al. · August 5, 2025 ### Towards Scalable Parameter Decomposition Bushnaq et al. · June 28, 2025 ### Towards Scalable Parameter Decomposition Bushnaq et al. · June 28, 2025 ### Replicating Circuit Tracing for a Simple Known Mechanism Loeffler et al. · June 11, 2025 ### Replicating Circuit Tracing for a Simple Known Mechanism Loeffler et al. · June 11, 2025 ### Painting With Concepts Using Diffusion Model Latents Cammarata et al. · May 27, 2025 ### Painting With Concepts Using Diffusion Model Latents Cammarata et al. · May 27, 2025 ### Under the Hood of a Reasoning Model Hazra et al. · April 15, 2025 ### Under the Hood of a Reasoning Model Hazra et al. · April 15, 2025 ### Interpreting Evo 2: Arc Institute's Next-Generation Genomic Foundation Model Gorton et al. · February 20, 2025 ### Interpreting Evo 2: Arc Institute's Next-Generation Genomic Foundation Model Gorton et al. · February 20, 2025 ### Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability Sharkey et al. · January 27, 2025 ### Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability Sharkey et al. · January 27, 2025 ### Mapping the Latent Space of Llama 3.3 70B McGrath et al. · December 23, 2024 ### Mapping the Latent Space of Llama 3.3 70B McGrath et al. · December 23, 2024 ### Understanding and Steering Llama 3 with Sparse Autoencoders McGrath et al. · September 25, 2024 ### Understanding and Steering Llama 3 with Sparse Autoencoders McGrath et al. · September 25, 2024