A Mathematical Theory of Interpretation: Rational Entropy, Spectral Readout, and Confusability as a Resource

arXiv:2608.23892 · cs.IT, cs.AI, math.IT · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.IT, cs.AI, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-24

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Core — 33× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Mathematical Theory of Interpretation — 33× in this paper
Aggregation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Interpretability — 7× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Hilbert Space — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Axioms — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Admissibility — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Aperture — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Mechanistic interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Access Regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Activation Patching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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