Goodfire finds retrained probes recover signals lost in language models
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Goodfire reports that probes for language models can break, but the concept usually moves rather than disappears, according to an X post by @GoodfireAI. In the company's language model experiments, retraining a probe was enough to recover the signal.
The post is a summary of the findings, and the report does not include the experimental details or the number of cases tested.
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Goodfire@GoodfireAIOfficialGoodfire finds retrained probes recover signals that break in language modelsAIGoodfire reports that probes for language models can break, but usually the concept moves rather than disappears. In its language model experiments, retraining a probe was enough to recover the signal.

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