polysemanticity

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October 16, 2026
research

Goodfire researcher claims 90% of Qwen-32B neurons have one job, challenging polysemanticity

Nick Cammarata of Goodfire published an essay, "Neural Networks Are Already Clean," arguing that agentic analysis resolves many known cases of polysemanticity and superposition. A widely shared summary says 90% of neurons in Qwen-32B have a single function. The results are unreplicated, and key methodology was not available in the source material.