Arthur Conmy

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Interpretability

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Eliciting secret knowledge from language models

Bartosz Cywiński, Arthur Conmy and Sam Marks

2 Oct 2025 20:57 UTC

67 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Discovering Backdoor Triggers

andrq, Tim Hua, Sam Marks, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

19 Aug 2025 6:24 UTC

57 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Unfaithful chain-of-thought as nudged reasoning

Paul Bogdan, Uzay Macar, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

22 Jul 2025 22:35 UTC

54 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Thought Anchors: Which LLM Reasoning Steps Matter?

Uzay Macar, Paul Bogdan, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

2 Jul 2025 20:16 UTC

35 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(www.thought-anchors.com)

Negative Results for SAEs On Downstream Tasks and Deprioritising SAE Research (GDM Mech Interp Team Progress Update #2)

lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, CallumMcDougall, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

26 Mar 2025 19:07 UTC

113 points

15 comments29 min readLW link

(deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com)

The GDM AGI Safety+Alignment Team is Hiring for Applied Interpretability Research

Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

24 Feb 2025 2:17 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders

Can, Adam Karvonen, Johnny Lin, Curt Tigges, Joseph Bloom, chanind, Yeu-Tong Lau, Eoin Farrell, Arthur Conmy, CallumMcDougall, Kola Ayonrinde, Matthew Wearden, Sam Marks and Neel Nanda

11 Dec 2024 6:30 UTC

82 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.neuronpedia.org)

Evolutionary prompt optimization for SAE feature visualization

neverix, Daniel Tan, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

14 Nov 2024 13:06 UTC

22 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

SAEs are highly dataset dependent: a case study on the refusal direction

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

7 Nov 2024 5:22 UTC

67 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

Open Source Replication of Anthropic’s Crosscoder paper for model-diffing

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

27 Oct 2024 18:46 UTC

48 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

SAE features for refusal and sycophancy steering vectors

neverix, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

12 Oct 2024 14:54 UTC

29 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Base LLMs refuse too

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

29 Sep 2024 16:04 UTC

61 points

20 comments10 min readLW link

Extracting SAE task features for in-context learning

Dmitrii Kharlapenko, neverix, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

12 Aug 2024 20:34 UTC

31 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Self-explaining SAE features

Dmitrii Kharlapenko, neverix, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

5 Aug 2024 22:20 UTC

62 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, nps29, Arthur Conmy, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár and Neel Nanda

19 Jul 2024 16:10 UTC

55 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

SAEs (usually) Transfer Between Base and Chat Models

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

18 Jul 2024 10:29 UTC

67 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Attention Output SAEs Improve Circuit Analysis

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

21 Jun 2024 12:56 UTC

33 points

3 comments19 min readLW link

Improving Dictionary Learning with Gated Sparse Autoencoders

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Tom Lieberum, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

25 Apr 2024 18:43 UTC

63 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Full Post] Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

80 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

[Summary] Progress Update #1 from the GDM Mech Interp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma

19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC

73 points

0 comments3 min readLW link