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Representational Simplicity and Circuit Size Dissociate in a Threshold-Dependent Way: A Controlled Test via Adversarial Training

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2d ago Cached

This preprint uses adversarial training as a controlled instrument on GPT-2 Small to test whether representational simplicity (SAE decomposability, concentrated attribution) implies causal circuit simplicity. It finds that robust models are more SAE-decomposable, while circuit size is regime-dependent: robustness helps at high faithfulness levels (90-95%) but not below 85%.

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