Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.
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What I Read: sparse circuits.
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https://openai.com/index/understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits/
Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits
Leo Gao, Achyuta Rajaram, Jacob Coxon, Soham V. Govande, Bowen Baker, Dan Mossing
November 13, 2025
"...what if we trained untangled neural networks, with many more neurons, but where each neuron has only a few dozen connections? Then maybe the resulting network will be simpler, and easier to understand."