Sean M. Richardson

PhD student, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Joined

September 2024

Names

Sean M. Richardson (Preferred)

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Sean Richardson

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Sean M Richardson

Emails

****@uchicago.edu (Confirmed)

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****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

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

2025 – 2030

MS student

Statistics, University of Chicago (uchicago.edu)

2023 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Statistics

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AI

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Publications

On the Significance of Softmax Geometry: Interpretability and Token Decoding
Yibo Jiang, Lin Gui, Sean M. Richardson, Mark Muchane, Yo Joong Choe, Victor Veitch
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Dynamic Weight Grafting: Localizing Finetuned Factual Knowledge in Transformers
Todd Nief, David Reber, Sean M. Richardson, Ari Holtzman
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Incorporating Hierarchical Semantics in Sparse Autoencoder Architectures
Mark Muchane, Sean M. Richardson, Kiho Park, Victor Veitch
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Multiple Streams of Knowledge Retrieval: Enriching and Recalling in Transformers
Todd Nief, David Reber, Sean M. Richardson, Ari Holtzman
- Mech Interp Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RATE: Causal Explainability of Reward Models with Imperfect Counterfactuals
David Reber, Sean M Richardson, Todd Nief, Cristina Garbacea, Victor Veitch
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Position: LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method
Jacy Reese Anthis, Ryan Liu, Sean M Richardson, Austin C. Kozlowski, Bernard Koch, Erik Brynjolfsson, James Evans, Michael S. Bernstein
- ICML 2025 Position Paper Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
RATE: Score Reward Models with Imperfect Rewrites of Rewrites
David Reber, Sean M Richardson, Todd Nief, Cristina Garbacea, Victor Veitch
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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