| day | topic | resources | details |
| Apr 25 | introduction | organization, lectures, student topics | |
| May 2 | synthetic data | talk by Latif Köksal, DeepMind | |
| assignment of topics | |||
| May 9 | memory etc. | NoLiMa | talk by Ali Modaresi |
| May 16 | multilinguality (1) | Manchu | talk by Peiqin Lin |
| May 23 | multilinguality (2) | representation&editing | talk by Mingyang Wang |
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| Jul 25 |
| paper | topic | ||
| all topics covered in the lectures (see above) | |||
| Geiping et al. | test-time compute: recurrent depth approach | ||
| DeepSeek-AI | DeepSeek-R1: reasoning through RL | ||
| Gemma Team | Gemma 3 technical report | ||
| Olsson et al. | induction heads | ||
| Maini et al. | rephrasing the web | ||
| Sharkey et al. | open problems in mechanistic interpretability | ||
| Park et al. | linear representation hypothesis | ||
| Han et al. (2024) | word embeddings are steers | ||
| Llama Team (2024) | Llama 3 | ||
| Qwen et al. (2024) | Qwen 2.5 | ||
| Abdin et al. (2024) | Phi-4 | ||
| Makelov et al. (2024) | sparse autoencoders (2) | ||
| McDougall et al. (2023) | copy suppression | ||
| Saphra et al. (2024) | notion of mechinterp | ||
| Dutta et al. (2024) | mechinterp: COT | ||
| Geva et al. (2023) | factual associations/enrichment | ||
| nostalgebrist (2020) | logit lens | ||
| Chughtai et al. (2024) | summing up the facts | ||
| Shao et al. (2024) | DeepSeekMath | ||
| Zhao et al. (2024) | Marco-o1 | ||
| Wu et al. (2024) | REFT | ||
| Hübotter et al. (2025) | SIFT | ||
| Hughes et al. (2024) | open-endedness | ||
| Turpin et al. (2023) | unfaithful COT | ||
| Gottweis et al. (2025) | AI co-scientist | ||
| Venhoff et al. (2025) | steered reasoning | ||
| Yu et al. (2024) | superweights | ||
| Bricken et al. (2023) | sparse autoencoders (1) | ||
| Packer et al. (2023) | MemGPT | ||
| Milliere et al. (2024) | philosophy of LLMs | ||
| StanfordNLP (2024) | DSPy | ||
| Durrani et al. (2020) | analyzing neurons | ||
| Voita et al. (2023) | dead neurons | ||
| De Peuter et al. (2023) | human-agent cooperation | ||
