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Sprint projectSep 17, 2024

Latent Space Clustering and Summarization

Matthew Shinkle

Submitted to ARENA 4.0 Interpretability Hackathon. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.

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I wanted to see how modern dimensionality reduction and clustering approaches can support visualization and interpretation of LLM latent spaces. I explored a number of different approaches and algoriths, but ultimately converged on UMAP for dimensionality reduction and birch clustering to extract groups of tokens in the latent space of a layer.

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@misc{shinkle2024latent,
  title = {{Latent Space Clustering and Summarization}},
  author = {Matthew Shinkle},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  note = {Submitted to ARENA 4.0 Interpretability Hackathon, an Apart Research Sprint},
  howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/latent-space-clustering-and-summarization}},
  url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/latent-space-clustering-and-summarization}
}

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