Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 20 of 20 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2606.27510.

A citation records a reference. It does not transfer a finding from one paper to another.

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This paper cites URLhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33512846/.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching URLhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33512846/

Reference 1

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Observation 8559eb6b-9bf7-4936-88f0-a67e3ac416a9 · outbound

This paper cites SAEs Are Good for Steering – If You Select the Right Features , url=.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching SAEs Are Good for Steering – If You Select the Right Features , url=

Reference 2

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

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Observation 4e1b990e-bb9c-4a12-b20c-81cf22836750 · outbound

This paper cites Causal analysis of syntactic agreement mechanisms in neural language models.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Causal analysis of syntactic agreement mechanisms in neural language models

Reference 4

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Observation 44a9ba16-a05e-4169-af76-aceec0021d36 · outbound

This paper cites Localizing Model Behavior with Path Patching.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Localizing Model Behavior with Path Patching

Reference 5

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Observation c6c98ddf-708c-48b6-920f-d5aa7df71d69 · outbound

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

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Observation 2f600ab1-0f14-44fc-a1e1-f958cc8a619d · outbound

This paper cites How to use and interpret activation patching.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching How to use and interpret activation patching

Reference 7

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Observation 6e828df5-a319-45ff-a816-957d22a9a462 · outbound

This paper cites Because we have LLMs, we Can and Should Pursue Agentic Interpretability.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Because we have LLMs, we Can and Should Pursue Agentic Interpretability

Reference 8

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

Reference 9

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Observation 166c5d28-c3a6-4522-97fd-7c76286028ea · outbound

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

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Observation 31f1ee2e-71c0-4dbb-8ce4-6be3f879f714 · outbound

This paper cites Computational Linguistics , pages =.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Computational Linguistics , pages =

Reference 11

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Observation 404a4df7-735f-4f2b-b4ad-315ed210b3ef · outbound

This paper cites Distill , year =.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Distill , year =

Reference 12

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

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Observation 82c12a0e-be1a-45dc-87cf-353ac237db5c · outbound

This paper cites The Shape of Beliefs: Geometry, Dynamics, and Interventions along Representation Manifolds of Language Models' Posteriors.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching The Shape of Beliefs: Geometry, Dynamics, and Interventions along Representation Manifolds of Language Models' Posteriors

Reference 14

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Observation f5926584-f7c2-4709-a9b9-5a9721d97803 · outbound

This paper cites In: Zong, C., Xia, F., Li, W., Navigli, R.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching In: Zong, C., Xia, F., Li, W., Navigli, R

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

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Observation df07a25d-bdef-48f1-9e73-1345f045e27b · outbound

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The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites 12 A Proofs We reproduce the definition of the path-specific effect [Avin et al., 2005] for reference.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching 12 A Proofs We reproduce the definition of the path-specific effect [Avin et al., 2005] for reference

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This paper cites For R=C , the only superset of C in C is C itself, so the inner sum equals (−1)0 = 1, contributing Y(C) to the overall sum.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching For R=C , the only superset of C in C is C itself, so the inner sum equals (−1)0 = 1, contributing Y(C) to the overall sum

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This paper cites All logit-diff units;N= 1000, pABC mean-ablation.

The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching All logit-diff units;N= 1000, pABC mean-ablation

Reference 20

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Pith citing papers

Observation 61faa1de-8a56-4715-a4d3-307fcdf1d5ba · inbound

A Theory of Conditional Collapse under Low-Rank Weight-Space Ablations: I. The Single-Block Theory and Synthetic Validation cites this paper.

A Theory of Conditional Collapse under Low-Rank Weight-Space Ablations: I. The Single-Block Theory and Synthetic Validation The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

Reference 14

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Observation 2d7582cf-4922-4c12-b608-1947af8dcabf · inbound

Cross-Layer Interaction under Weight-Space Ablation: A Closed-Form Attention Jacobian Bound and a Test on a Real Pretrained Model cites this paper.

Cross-Layer Interaction under Weight-Space Ablation: A Closed-Form Attention Jacobian Bound and a Test on a Real Pretrained Model The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

Reference 4

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Observation 59d38153-d60c-4634-9da1-ca5cdfbbd642 · inbound

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models cites this paper.

Orientation, not magnitude: the causal structure of task-vector interference in merged language models The Curse of Multiple Mediators: Hidden Interaction Effects in Activation Patching

Reference 2012

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