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Neel Nanda - Mechanistic Interpretability

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Concept of Residual Streams in Neural Networks

Microsoft introduced resnet in 2015 which basically means that between all of the layers the information is being passed up unadulterated so the subsequent layer can choose to either essentially shortcut or ignore the previous layer. i think people normally thought of them as like yeah it's like a cute trick that makes the model better but doesn't massively change my conceptual picture, he says.

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