Journal article
Repair Without a Repairer: Five Mechanisms Called Self-Repair in Neural Networks, Why Much of the Measured Restoration Is Restored Scale, and What Would License the Claim That a Network Restores Its Own Performance
"Self-repair" is used in at least three research communities that do not cite one another. In transformer interpretability it names the Hydra effect: when one component is ablated, later components shift their output and partly restore the logit. In neuromorphic engineering it names…