Trenton Bricken

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May 2021

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Trenton Bricken (Preferred)

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PhD student

Harvard University (harvard.edu)

2020 – 2025

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Cross-Architecture Model Diffing with Crosscoders: Unsupervised Discovery of Differences Between LLMs
Thomas Jiralerspong, Trenton Bricken
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Cross-Architecture Model Diffing with Crosscoders: Unsupervised Discovery of Differences Between LLMs
Thomas Jiralerspong, Trenton Bricken
- Mech Interp Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Many-shot Jailbreaking
Cem Anil, Esin DURMUS, Nina Rimsky, Mrinank Sharma, Joe Benton, Sandipan Kundu, Joshua Batson, Meg Tong, Jesse Mu, Daniel J Ford, Francesco Mosconi, Rajashree Agrawal, Rylan Schaeffer, Naomi Bashkansky, Samuel Svenningsen, Mike Lambert, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Carson Denison, Evan J Hubinger, Yuntao Bai et al. (14 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Emergence of Sparse Representations from Noise
Trenton Bricken, Rylan Schaeffer, Bruno Olshausen, Gabriel Kreiman
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Noise Transforms Feed-Forward Networks into Sparse Coding Networks
Trenton Bricken, Bruno Olshausen, Gabriel Kreiman
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Sparse Distributed Memory is a Continual Learner
Trenton Bricken, Xander Davies, Deepak Singh, Dmitry Krotov, Gabriel Kreiman
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Attention Approximates Sparse Distributed Memory
Trenton Bricken, Cengiz Pehlevan
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Trenton Bricken

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Cross-Architecture Model Diffing with Crosscoders: Unsupervised Discovery of Differences Between LLMs

Cross-Architecture Model Diffing with Crosscoders: Unsupervised Discovery of Differences Between LLMs

Many-shot Jailbreaking

Emergence of Sparse Representations from Noise

Noise Transforms Feed-Forward Networks into Sparse Coding Networks

Sparse Distributed Memory is a Continual Learner

Attention Approximates Sparse Distributed Memory

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