Zhengxuan Wu
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Zhengxuan Wu

Google Scholar ID: CBvE6lwAAAAJ
Stanford University
natural language processingmechanistic interpretability
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
2,661
 
H-index
25
 
i10-index
33
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
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Contact
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Publications
14 items
The Persona Hierarchy Model: Understanding Contextual Generalization in Fine-Tuning LLMs
2026
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EurekaBench: Measuring Agentic Ability to Discover New Scientific Insights
2026
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Generalization Dynamics of LM Pre-training
2026
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XYEval: Agents say yes to bad advice
2026
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The Piggyback Hypothesis of Generalization: Explaining and Mitigating Emergent Misalignment
2026
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PreFT: Prefill-only finetuning for efficient inference
2026
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ADAG: Automatically Describing Attribution Graphs
2026
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Language Model Circuits Are Sparse in the Neuron Basis
2026
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Improved representation steering for language models, NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight), *equal contribution
  • AxBench: Steering LLMs? Even simple baselines outperform sparse autoencoders, ICML 2025 (Spotlight), *equal contribution
  • ReFT: Representation finetuning for language models, NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight), *equal contribution
  • pyvene: A library for understanding and improving PyTorch models via interventions, NAACL 2024
  • Interpretability at scale: Identifying causal mechanisms in Alpaca, NeurIPS 2023, *equal contribution
Co-authors
8 total
Christopher Potts
Christopher Potts
Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Christopher D Manning
Christopher D Manning
Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford University
Noah D. Goodman
Noah D. Goodman
Stanford University
Thomas Icard
Thomas Icard
C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Computer Science (courtesy), Stanford University
Desmond C. Ong
Desmond C. Ong
Assistant Professor of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin
Aryaman Arora
Aryaman Arora
Stanford University
Dan Jurafsky
Dan Jurafsky
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Stanford University
Atticus Geiger
Atticus Geiger
Pr(Ai)²R Group