Julian Minder

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PhD @ EPFL with Robert West. MATS 7 Scholar with Neel Nanda. Interested in mechanistic interpretability and the what the process of finetuning does to models.

Narrow Finetuning Leaves Clearly Readable Traces in Activation Differences

Julian Minder, Clément Dumas, Stewy Slocum and Neel Nanda

5 Sep 2025 12:11 UTC

50 points

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What We Learned Trying to Diff Base and Chat Models (And Why It Matters)

Clément Dumas, Julian Minder and Neel Nanda

30 Jun 2025 17:17 UTC

105 points

2 comments7 min readLW link