Are We Recovering Mechanisms? Objective-Level Recovery Gaps in Mechanistic Interpretability

arXiv:2610.02098 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-10

Terminology

• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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