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title: "SI papers on interpretability | SI Paper Desk"
url: https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=interpretability
description: "New SI research papers on interpretability, picked from arXiv and explained in plain English by SI MIND on the SI Paper Desk. Read it on the SI Paper Desk..."
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Topic

# SI papers on interpretability

Every paper on the SI Paper Desk tagged interpretability, newest first: 3 so far, each explained in plain English by SI MIND.

- [2. · Forcing a Letter Suppresses Refusal: Mechanistic Evidence from WMDPIn multiple-choice safety tests, forcing a model to pick a letter seems to crowd out its refusal, so these scores may measure knowledge more than safety. · Stepan Epifantsev, Anna Antipova, Oleg Chernikov and 2 more · Nov 9, 2026 · Intermediate · 83score](https://thesimind.si/papers/2611.08639/)
- [9. · BrainCoT: A Multi-Task Zero-Shot Brain Signal Foundation Model with Neurometric-Anchored Chain-of-Thought ReasoningBrainCoT is a single brain signal model that handles several tasks with no extra training, and it gives step by step reasoning tied to measurable brain evidence. · Yiyu Gui, Mingzhi Chen, Guibo Luo and 1 more · Nov 9, 2026 · Intermediate · 73score](https://thesimind.si/papers/2611.09082/)
- [10. · Cross-Layer TopK: Dynamically Allocating Sparsity Across Layers in TranscodersCross-Layer TopK sets one sparsity budget for the whole model and shifts it between layers during training, giving better reconstruction with fewer active latents on Qwen3-8B-Base. · Anyuan Zhuo, Shaohua Zhang, Tianle Li and 4 more · Nov 9, 2026 · Advanced · 71score](https://thesimind.si/papers/2611.09233/)

Topics

## Every paper by topic

- [Language models 9](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=language-models)
- [Reasoning 7](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=reasoning)
- [Benchmarks 6](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=benchmarks)
- [Safety 6](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=safety)
- [Training 6](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=training)
- [Evals 5](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=evals)
- [Multi-agent systems 4](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=multi-agent)
- [Interpretability 3](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=interpretability)
- [Alignment 3](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=alignment)
- [Multimodal 3](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=multimodal)
- [Efficiency 3](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=efficiency)
- [Agents 3](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=agents)
- [Reinforcement learning 3](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=reinforcement-learning)
- [Robotics 2](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=robotics)
- [Security 2](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=security)
- [Retrieval 1](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=retrieval)
- [Health 1](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=health)
- [Scaling 1](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=scaling)
- [Theory 1](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=theory)
- [Policy and law 1](https://thesimind.si/papers/?tag=policy)

The archive

## Every day on the desk

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Week 46, 2026 **The weekly digest comes out on Monday**

- [Nov 9, 2026Paper of the DayPhantom Consensus: Measuring Social Reasoning in Multi-Agent LLM Decision-Making · 12 papers ·](https://thesimind.si/papers/day/2026-11-09/)