Recent advances in mechanistic interpretability have revealed how language models process information, yet these insights rarely improve model performance. We propose Interpretable Feature-Space Regularization (IFSR), a training-time framework that transforms mechanistic insights into optimization signals. IFSR identifies error-prone feature interactions through circuit attribution and penalizes them during training, encouraging the model to discover alternative computational pathways. Unlike inference-time interventions that operate on individual features, IFSR targets feature-to-feature edges representing internal computational patterns, and permanently encodes improvements into model parameters. Experiments across ten classification tasks show consistent improvements. Cross-task evaluation demonstrates that IFSR training can transfer positively to unrelated tasks, suggesting benefits to general model capabilities. Our analysis reveals that most identified error patterns resist human interpretation, yet penalizing them still improves performance, suggesting that automatic error identification at the level of feature interactions is feasible and effective. This work demonstrates that mechanistic interpretability can directly enhance task performance through training-time optimization.

The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) makes detecting LLM-Generated text a critical security task. Existing methods, primarily relying on output probabilities from proxy models or single semantic features, suffer from distribution misalignment and limited interpretability. We observe that machine-generated text exhibits a directionally consistent systematic translation relative to human-written text within the joint semantic-structural space. Accordingly, we propose ProSSD, a statistical framework utilizing supervised subspace learning to extract compact features and construct conditional semantic distributions based on syntactic structures. By employing a likelihood ratio test, we derive a modified Mahalanobis distance, weighted by the Wasserstein distance, as the discriminative metric. Experiments demonstrate ProSSD’s superior robustness and computational efficiency across cross-domain, cross-model, and adversarial scenarios. Furthermore, we reveal the phenomena of systematic semantic translation and semantic collapse in machine-generated text, offering interpretable statistical insights into LLM generation behaviors.