Skip to content

2026-01-21 | LISA Coworking - ACDC and Meetings

Goal: LISA Coworking - Circuits Deep Dive | Start Programming KL Divergence | David Quarel PPO Lecture

Summary: Implemented KL Divergence/dive into math, meetings!

Work sessions

In Out
9:00 19:00

Meetings

  1. Met with J Rosser (one of the nicest people I've met)

  2. Clement Dumas currently doing MATS (super patient at explaining and very insightful)

Progress

  • A little bit slower progress on ACDC then I would have liked. I started unit testing KL Divergence and understanding the ACDC algorithm better (something I got tripped up on was that the activation patching is the "removal of the edge" not actually ablating (zeroing)) it

  • Finished watching up to the paper review from Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy (part 1 and part 2)

  • Coordinated timing of meetings and work for Thursday/tenatively Friday (tomorrow is RLHF!)