Research documents

Research log

Append-only, auditable record of every question, experiment, result, and decision.

State of the art

Phase 2 — technique taxonomy with epistemic status (established / contested / debunked-in-part).

Research gaps

Phase 3 — ≥20 falsifiable candidate directions, each with its smallest Mac-runnable falsifying experiment.

Candidate ranking

Phase 4 — 10-axis scoring and 3–5 selected prototype candidates.

Methodology

Phase 9 — the formal pipeline turning (checkpoint + corpora + budget) into confidence-labeled atlas entries.

not yet written

Novelty check

Phase 11 — final novelty verification (assume not novel until shown otherwise).

not yet written

Bibliography

Every consulted source with URL and access date.

Phase 1 literature notes

4.1 observational probing

Phase 1 notes — §4.1 Observational probing

4.10 visualization atlas design

Phase 1 notes — §4.10 Visualization and atlas prior art

4.2 causal interventions

Phase 1 notes — §4.2 Causal / interventional methods

4.3 feature decomposition

Phase 1 notes — §4.3 Feature decomposition (SAEs, superposition, dictionary methods)

4.4 circuits and graphs

Phase 1 notes — §4.4 Circuits and computational graphs

4.5 weight space cartography

Phase 1 notes — §4.5 Weight-space cartography (no forward pass required)

4.6 knowledge localization editing

Phase 1 notes — §4.6 Knowledge localization and editing

4.7 cross model comparison

Phase 1 notes — §4.7 Cross-model and cross-scale comparison

4.8 statistics epistemology

Phase 1 notes — §4.8 Statistics and epistemology of interpretability

4.9 systems local mapping

Phase 1 notes — §4.9 Systems side — local mapping at scale on macOS

The project charter itself is public: read the full research charter.