Keenan Pepper

Researcher, Agency Enterprise Studio

Joined

January 2025

Names

Keenan Pepper (Preferred)

Emails

****@ae.studio (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Agency Enterprise Studio (ae.studio)

2024 – Present

PhD student

Physics, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2009 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Self-Interpretable Concept Representations: Training Lightweight Adapters on Vector-Label Pairs
Keenan Pepper, Alex McKenzie, Florin Pop, Stijn Servaes, Martin Leitgab, Michael Vaiana, Judd Rosenblatt, Michael S. A. Graziano, Diogo S de Lucena
- UCRL@ICLR2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Endogenous Resistance to Activation Steering in Language Models
Alex McKenzie, Keenan Pepper, Stijn Servaes, Martin Leitgab, Murat Cubuktepe, Michael Vaiana, Diogo S de Lucena, Judd Rosenblatt, Michael S. A. Graziano
- Sci4DL 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Endogenous Resistance to Activation Steering in Language Models
Alex McKenzie, Keenan Pepper, Stijn Servaes, Martin Leitgab, Murat Cubuktepe, Michael Vaiana, Diogo S de Lucena, Judd Rosenblatt, Michael S. A. Graziano
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Ablating Transformers: More Interpretability, Less Sparsity
Jeremias Lino Ferrao, Luhan Mikaelson, Keenan Pepper, Natalia Perez-Campanero
- BuildingTrust
- Readers: Everyone

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