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Vikrant Varma

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Research Engineer at DeepMind.

Publications

MONA: Three Month Later—Up­dates and Steganog­ra­phy Without Op­ti­miza­tion Pressure

David Lindner and Vikrant Varma
12 Apr 2025 23:15 UTC
31 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

JumpReLU SAEs + Early Ac­cess to Gemma 2 SAEs

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, nps29, Arthur Conmy, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár and Neel Nanda
19 Jul 2024 16:10 UTC
55 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(storage.googleapis.com)

Im­prov­ing Dic­tionary Learn­ing with Gated Sparse Autoencoders

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Tom Lieberum, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda
25 Apr 2024 18:43 UTC
63 points
38 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Full Post] Progress Up­date #1 from the GDM Mech In­terp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma
19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC
80 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

[Sum­mary] Progress Up­date #1 from the GDM Mech In­terp Team

Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, János Kramár and Vikrant Varma
19 Apr 2024 19:06 UTC
73 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: Challenges with Un­su­per­vised LLM Knowl­edge Discovery

Seb Farquhar, Vikrant Varma, zac_kenton, gasteigerjo, Vlad Mikulik and Rohin Shah
18 Dec 2023 11:58 UTC
149 points
21 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing grokking through cir­cuit efficiency

Vikrant Varma and Rohin Shah
8 Sep 2023 14:39 UTC
101 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Refin­ing the Sharp Left Turn threat model, part 2: ap­ply­ing al­ign­ment techniques

Vika, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar and Rohin Shah
25 Nov 2022 14:36 UTC
39 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

Threat Model Liter­a­ture Review

zac_kenton, Rohin Shah, David Lindner, Vikrant Varma, Vika, Mary Phuong, Ramana Kumar and Elliot Catt
1 Nov 2022 11:03 UTC
79 points
4 comments25 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing AI X-risk

zac_kenton, Rohin Shah, David Lindner, Vikrant Varma, Vika, Mary Phuong, Ramana Kumar and Elliot Catt
1 Nov 2022 11:03 UTC
127 points
24 comments4 min readLW link1 review

More ex­am­ples of goal misgeneralization

Rohin Shah and Vikrant Varma
7 Oct 2022 14:38 UTC
56 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com)

Refin­ing the Sharp Left Turn threat model, part 1: claims and mechanisms

Vika, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar and Mary Phuong
12 Aug 2022 15:17 UTC
86 points
4 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

ELK con­test sub­mis­sion: route un­der­stand­ing through the hu­man ontology

Vika, Ramana Kumar and Vikrant Varma
14 Mar 2022 21:42 UTC
21 points
2 comments2 min readLW link