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Aaquib Syed

Aaquib Syed has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Interpretability, Bias, fairness & safety; often with Arthur Conmy, Can Rager, Daniel Paleka.

2 papers in our library · 2023–2024

OpenAlex · h-index 3 · 3 works · 84 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 256 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5739

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 1 workLanguage and Linguistics · 1 workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 workSoftware · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Interpretability · 1 workBias, fairness & safety · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20241 paper20231 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (2024 · 196 citations)
    Chat LLMs are safety-tuned to decline harmful requests, but how this behavior works inside the model is poorly understood.
  2. Attribution Patching Outperforms Automated Circuit Discovery (2023 · 81 citations)
    Mechanistic interpretability tries to find circuits, which are small subgraphs of a network that account for a specific behavior. Automated tools such as ACDC rely on activation patching. That method needs an extra forward pass for each edge it tests, so it scales poorly to large models.

 Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 256 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 63 citing papers with a page here →.

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