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New research reveals weight direction, not magnitude, carries transferable circuit identity in neural networks

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Researchers have developed a novel method called cross-trajectory chimera interventions to investigate the portability of learned features in neural networks. By splitting weight vectors into magnitude and direction components and recombining them between independently trained networks, they found that the direction of weights carries a transferable circuit identity, while magnitude has a more limited, distributed effect. This suggests that weight direction dictates the specific solution a network approaches, and its susceptibility to being overwritten. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Truong Xuan Khanh ·

    Cross-Trajectory Chimera Interventions Reveal Dissociable Roles of Weight Magnitude and Direction in Grokking

    arXiv:2607.06628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Which properties of a partially trained network are causally portable to a different, independently trained network? Single-trajectory interventions show necessity within one run, not portability across runs. We introduce cross-tr…

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