Senthooran Rajamanoharan

Karma: 1,161

How Can Interpretability Researchers Help AGI Go Well?

Neel Nanda, Josh Engels, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, bilalchughtai, CallumMcDougall, János Kramár and lewis smith

1 Dec 2025 13:05 UTC

62 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

A Pragmatic Vision for Interpretability

Neel Nanda, Josh Engels, Arthur Conmy, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, bilalchughtai, CallumMcDougall, János Kramár and lewis smith

1 Dec 2025 13:05 UTC

134 points

36 comments27 min readLW link

Current LLMs seem to rarely detect CoT tampering

Bartosz Cywiński, Bart Bussmann, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Josh Engels

19 Nov 2025 15:27 UTC

52 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

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

79 points

8 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

133 points

24 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

80 points

19 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

74 points

1 comment8 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

112 points

18 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

115 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