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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i

As of 23 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 15 of 15 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.00808.

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Unresolved cited work

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Ian J Goodfellow, Jonathon Shlens, and Christian Szegedy.

A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Ian J Goodfellow, Jonathon Shlens, and Christian Szegedy

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Note that the NMA has two distinct conclusions

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This paper cites Towards falsifiable interpretability research.

A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Towards falsifiable interpretability research

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This paper cites Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability.

A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Progress measures for grokking via mechanistic interpretability

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This paper cites Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability.

A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Unresolved cited work

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i That is, their ur-explanations are well-defined and we ought to be realists about features, as variables of computation

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Mechanistic

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i even if humans and machines do not share all concepts, AI concepts are understandable by humans given the right explanation

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Raphaël Millière and Cameron Buckner.

A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Raphaël Millière and Cameron Buckner

Reference 1990

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders

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A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i Are DeepSeek R1 And Other Reasoning Models More Faithful?

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From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability cites this paper.

From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i

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A Geometric View for Understanding Concept Learning and Neuron Interpretation in Sparse Autoencoders cites this paper.

A Geometric View for Understanding Concept Learning and Neuron Interpretation in Sparse Autoencoders A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i

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