Wes Gurnee

According to our database, Wes Gurnee authored at least 17 papers between 2021 and 2026.

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2026

Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model.

Nicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders, Runjin Chen, Tom Henighan, Sasha Hydrie, Craig Citro, Adam Pearce, Julius Tarng, Wes Gurnee, Joshua Batson, Sam Zimmerman, Kelley Rivoire, Kyle Fish, Chris Olah, Jack Lindsey

CoRR, April, 2026

When Models Manipulate Manifolds: The Geometry of a Counting Task.

Wes Gurnee, Emmanuel Ameisen, Isaac Kauvar, Julius Tarng, Adam Pearce, Chris Olah, Joshua Batson

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?

Vedang Lad, Jin Hwa Lee, Wes Gurnee, Max Tegmark

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025, 2025

Not All Language Model Features Are One-Dimensionally Linear.

Joshua Engels, Eric J. Michaud, Isaac Liao, Wes Gurnee, Max Tegmark

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

2024

Universal Neurons in GPT2 Language Models.

Wes Gurnee, Theo Horsley, Zifan Carl Guo, Tara Rezaei Kheirkhah, Qinyi Sun, Will Hathaway, Neel Nanda, Dimitris Bertsimas

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2024

Multilevel Interpretability Of Artificial Neural Networks: Leveraging Framework And Methods From Neuroscience.

Zhonghao He, Jascha Achterberg, Katie Collins, Kevin K. Nejad, Danyal Akarca, Yinzhu Yang, Wes Gurnee, Ilia Sucholutsky, Yuhan Tang, Rebeca Ianov, George Ogden, Chole Li, Kai Sandbrink, Stephen Casper, Anna Ivanova, Grace W. Lindsay

CoRR, 2024

The Remarkable Robustness of LLMs: Stages of Inference?

Vedang Lad, Wes Gurnee, Max Tegmark

CoRR, 2024

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction.

Andy Arditi, Oscar Obeso, Aaquib Syed, Daniel Paleka, Nina Rimsky, Wes Gurnee, Neel Nanda

CoRR, 2024

Not All Language Model Features Are Linear.

Joshua Engels, Isaac Liao, Eric J. Michaud, Wes Gurnee, Max Tegmark

CoRR, 2024

Confidence Regulation Neurons in Language Models.

Alessandro Stolfo, Ben Wu, Wes Gurnee, Yonatan Belinkov, Xingyi Song, Mrinmaya Sachan, Neel Nanda

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction.

Andy Arditi, Oscar Obeso, Aaquib Syed, Daniel Paleka, Nina Panickssery, Wes Gurnee, Neel Nanda

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Language Models Represent Space and Time.

Wes Gurnee, Max Tegmark

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

2023

Finding Neurons in a Haystack: Case Studies with Sparse Probing.

Wes Gurnee, Neel Nanda, Matthew Pauly, Katherine Harvey, Dmitrii Troitskii, Dimitris Bertsimas

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023

Training Dynamics of Contextual N-Grams in Language Models.

Lucia Quirke, Lovis Heindrich, Wes Gurnee, Neel Nanda

CoRR, 2023

2022

Learning Sparse Nonlinear Dynamics via Mixed-Integer Optimization.

Dimitris Bertsimas, Wes Gurnee

CoRR, 2022

Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: The Design of Multi-member Districts.

Nikhil Garg, Wes Gurnee, David Rothschild, David B. Shmoys

Proceedings of the EC '22: The 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Boulder, CO, USA, July 11, 2022

2021

Fairmandering: A column generation heuristic for fairness-optimized political districting.

Wes Gurnee, David B. Shmoys

Proceedings of the 2021 SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms, 2021