Neel Nanda

Karma: 15,384

LLM-Driven Feature Discovery

Josh Engels, bilalchughtai and Neel Nanda

22 Jun 2026 22:26 UTC

17 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

How transparent is DiffusionGemma (and why it matters)

Josh Engels, Callum McDougall, bilalchughtai, János Kramár, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

20 Jun 2026 20:05 UTC

79 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits

CallumMcDougall, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

16 Jun 2026 0:04 UTC

60 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Why Do Naive SFT Filters For Safety Properties Fail?

Josh Engels and Neel Nanda

14 Jun 2026 19:45 UTC

51 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

SFT Drives Gemini’s Safety Properties

Josh Engels, Arthur Conmy, bilalchughtai and Neel Nanda

13 Jun 2026 15:31 UTC

78 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Building and evaluating model diffing agents

bilalchughtai, Josh Engels and Neel Nanda

12 Jun 2026 17:14 UTC

61 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Models May Behave Worse When Eval Aware

Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

11 Jun 2026 9:28 UTC

87 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

Building Better Activation Oracles

ceselder, Jan Bauer, Niclas Luick, Adam Karvonen and Neel Nanda

4 Jun 2026 18:34 UTC

63 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Test your best methods on our hard CoT interp tasks

daria, Riya Tyagi, Josh Engels and Neel Nanda

26 Mar 2026 19:24 UTC

59 points

2 comments19 min readLW link

How well do models follow their constitutions?

aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

12 Mar 2026 0:07 UTC

100 points

5 comments26 min readLW link

Censored LLMs as a Natural Testbed for Secret Knowledge Elicitation

Bartosz Cywiński, Helena Casademunt, Khoi Tran, aryaj, Sam Marks and Neel Nanda

9 Mar 2026 18:50 UTC

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Current activation oracles are hard to use

aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

3 Mar 2026 19:33 UTC

83 points

4 comments16 min readLW link

How to Design Environments for Understanding Model Motives

gersonkroiz, aditya singh, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

2 Mar 2026 7:14 UTC

46 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Why Did My Model Do That? Model Forensics for Diagnosing LLM Misbehavior

aditya singh, gersonkroiz, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

27 Feb 2026 3:20 UTC

60 points

12 comments25 min readLW link

models have some pretty funny attractor states

aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

12 Feb 2026 21:14 UTC

275 points

38 comments18 min readLW link

It Is Reasonable To Research How To Use Model Internals In Training

Neel Nanda8 Feb 2026 3:44 UTC

103 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Test your interpretability techniques by de-censoring Chinese models

Khoi Tran, aryaj, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

15 Jan 2026 16:33 UTC

91 points

14 comments20 min readLW link

Global CoT Analysis: Initial attempts to uncover patterns across many chains of thought

Riya Tyagi, daria, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

13 Jan 2026 20:40 UTC

52 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

Brief Explorations in LLM Value Rankings

Tim Hua, Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

12 Jan 2026 18:16 UTC

39 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Principled Interpretability of Reward Hacking in Closed Frontier Models

gersonkroiz, aditya singh, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

1 Jan 2026 16:37 UTC

25 points

0 comments23 min readLW link