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Minimal subspace search (rank-sweep probing)
Sweeps candidate subspace dimension d, jointly training a rank-d linear projection plus classifier at each d, to find the smallest d at which held-out accuracy is within a fixed tolerance of the unconstrained ceiling — operationalizes 'how many dimensions does this concept need', distinct from simply asking whether it is decodable at all.