We Built Minds Before We Understood Them
Every generation of technology has a moment where building stops being the hardest part.
Aquin Labs
We're the research company reverse engineering with interpretability to design, build, and understand intelligence.
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Activation Steering for Bias Reduction
Activation Steering Can Reduce Bias, But Only If You're Honest About Its Limits
Training Sparse Autoencoders
Dictionary learning over transformer activations: what the trainer sees, how feature quality scales with data, and how a trained SAE plugs into inspection, steering, and benchmarks.
Simulating Training
No gradient-descent loop runs. Four analytical passes: SAE baseline, gradient landscape, LiSSA influence scoring, and NTK-linearised weight prediction
Aquin DevKit: SDK & CLI
https://pypi.org/project/aquin
Structuring Social Data for AI
Vivly.in × Aquin Labs Experiment Study
QLoRA Fine-Tuning of LLaMA 3.2-1B Instruct on a Healthcare Domain Dataset
Open-Source Repo
Embedding Models
Geometry inspection, retrieval evaluation, fine-tuning monitoring, and embedding diff across checkpoints. Load any sentence-transformers compatible encoder and get the full picture of embedding space.
Transformers & LLMs
Aquin supports the full transformer family: dense LLMs and Mixture-of-Experts models. Every tool in the platform is architecture-aware from the moment you load a model.
The Security System
Adversarial risk detection across the model checkpoint and the boundary between model versions.
The Training Inspect System
Real-time signal detection, behavioral before/after comparison, and per-layer feature diffs: everything the loss curve doesn't show you.
The Attribution System
Seven tools that answer two questions: how did the model produce this output, and is the output actually correct?
The Eval System
Three behavioral evals that go beyond accuracy measuring whether a model answers consistently, what it quietly avoids, and where its knowledge runs out.
Benchmarks
How Aquin scores and validates SAE features, and how the Benchmark Builder lets you measure model capability without leaving your inspection session.