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Explaining Grokking Through Circuit Efficiency
Oct 17, 2023
The podcast explores the concept of grokking and its relationship with network performance. It discusses the use of circuits as modules, module addition and generalization, balancing cross entropy loss and weight decay in deep learning models, circuit efficiency and its role in performance, grokking and the impact on model strength, and the relationship between circuit efficiency and generalization.
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- Efficiency in circuits that convert small parameters into large logits tend to generalize well.
- The presence of multiple circuits competing and coexisting contributes to network efficiency and adaptability in solving complex problems.
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