Michael Gao
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Study notes and paper summaries on mechinterp. Some write ups are partially AI assisted for faster drafting.
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The Field at a Glance
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Foreword: the views below draw heavily on Neel Nanda’s writing, conversations with several Yale professors, and my own reading and reflection. Credit where it’s due;…
Apr 14, 2026
[Review] A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits
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Notes on Elhage, Nanda, Olsson et al. (2021). This paper kicked off the Anthropic transformer circuits thread. This is one of the first serious attempts to reverse engineer…
Apr 11, 2026
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