Do Japanese and English Share Neurons? I Trained the Microscope to Check
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Sparse autoencoders find human-readable features inside LLMs. I trained one per layer on a Japanese-English model and measured which features fire in both languages — then tested whether they actually matter, with controls. The correlation is beautiful. The causation is borderline. Both get reporte…
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- 2026-10-22 14:31 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Do Japanese and English Share Neurons? I Trained the Microscope to Check