Senthooran Rajamanoharan

Karma: 970

Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning

kh4dien, Helena Casademunt, Adam Karvonen, Sam Marks, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

23 Jul 2025 14:57 UTC

78 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Narrow Misalignment is Hard, Emergent Misalignment is Easy

Edward Turner, Anna Soligo, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

14 Jul 2025 21:05 UTC

129 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

Self-preservation or Instruction Ambiguity? Examining the Causes of Shutdown Resistance

Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

14 Jul 2025 14:52 UTC

66 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

Convergent Linear Representations of Emergent Misalignment

Anna Soligo, Edward Turner, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

16 Jun 2025 15:47 UTC

66 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Model Organisms for Emergent Misalignment

Anna Soligo, Edward Turner, Mia Taylor, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

16 Jun 2025 15:46 UTC

110 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Interim Research Report: Mechanisms of Awareness

Josh Engels, Neel Nanda and Senthooran Rajamanoharan

2 May 2025 20:29 UTC

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

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)

Takeaways From Our Recent Work on SAE Probing

Josh Engels, Subhash Kantamneni, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

3 Mar 2025 19:50 UTC

30 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

SAE Probing: What is it good for?

Subhash Kantamneni, Josh Engels, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

1 Nov 2024 19:23 UTC

34 points

0 comments11 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)

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

Case Studies in Reverse-Engineering Sparse Autoencoder Features by Using MLP Linearization

Jacob Dunefsky, Philippe Chlenski, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

14 Jan 2024 2:06 UTC

24 points

0 comments42 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Do Early Layers Specialise in Local Processing? (Post 5)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

23 Dec 2023 2:46 UTC

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Fact Finding: How to Think About Interpreting Memorisation (Post 4)

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

23 Dec 2023 2:46 UTC

22 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Trying to Mechanistically Understanding Early MLPs (Post 3)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

23 Dec 2023 2:46 UTC

10 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Simplifying the Circuit (Post 2)

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

23 Dec 2023 2:45 UTC

25 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Attempting to Reverse-Engineer Factual Recall on the Neuron Level (Post 1)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

23 Dec 2023 2:44 UTC

106 points

10 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews