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Stan van Wingerden
dblp:389/4643
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Deep learning architectures and training · 61% Trustworthy machine learning · 30% Learning theory · 9% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › attention mechanism › multi-head attention
attention head specialization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiation and Specialization of Attention Heads via the Refined Local Learning Coefficient · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiation and Specialization of Attention Heads via the Refined Local Learning Coefficient · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
transformer |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiation and Specialization of Attention Heads via the Refined Local Learning Coefficient · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
singular learning theory · 0.9local learning coefficient · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Differentiation and Specialization of Attention Heads via the Refined Local Learning CoefficientabstractWe introduce refined variants of the Local Learning Coefficient (LLC), a measure of model complexity grounded in singular learning theory, to study the development of internal structure in transformer language models during training. By applying these refined LLCs (rLLCs) to individual components of a two-layer attention-only transformer, we gain novel insights into the progressive differentiation and specialization of attention heads. Our methodology reveals how attention heads differentiate into distinct functional roles over the course of training, analyzes the types of data these heads specialize to process, and discovers a previously unidentified multigram circuit. These findings demonstrate that rLLCs provide a principled, quantitative toolkit for developmental interpretability, which aims to understand models through their evolution across the learning process. This work advances the field of developmental interpretability by providing a mathematically rigorous approach to understanding neural networks through the lens of their learning process. More broadly, this work takes a step towards establishing the correspondence between data distributional structure, geometric properties of the loss landscape, learning dynamics, and emergent computational structures in neural networks. George Wang, Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Zach Furman, Daniel Murfet |
ICLR | 3 |