Equation 22 · Part 1 · How Mechanistic Interpretability Research Is Actually Done
Symbol c
What this part means
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol c→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
This particular direction — a clean value spliced into an otherwise corrupted run — is called denoising: it measures how much of the clean behaviour component c can restore on its own. The complementary direction, a corrupted value spliced into an otherwise clean run, is noising, and it measures how much clean behaviour depends on c specifically. The two ask different questions, and a careful study reports both, together with the exact corruption and the…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
These citations provide research context; check each source for the exact claim it supports.