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Eliciting Secret Knowledge from Language Models
Bartosz Cywiński, Emil Ryd, Rowan Wang +4
We study secret elicitation: discovering knowledge that an AI possesses but does not explicitly verbalize. As a testbed, we train three families of large language models (LLMs) to…
Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When
Constantin Venhoff, Iván Arcuschin, Philip Torr +2
What do thinking language models learn during training that their base models lack? We first present an unsupervised method that discovers a model's reasoning behaviors by training…
Line of Sight: On Linear Representations in VLLMs
Achyuta Rajaram, Sarah Schwettmann, Jacob Andreas +1
Language models can be equipped with multimodal capabilities by fine-tuning on embeddings of visual inputs. But how do such multimodal models represent images in their hidden activ…
Thought Anchors: Which LLM Reasoning Steps Matter?
Paul C. Bogdan, Uzay Macar, Neel Nanda +1
Current frontier large-language models rely on reasoning to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Many existing interpretability are limited in this area, as standard methods have…
Understanding Reasoning in Thinking Language Models via Steering Vectors
Constantin Venhoff, Iván Arcuschin, Philip Torr +2
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of thinking language models that generate extensive internal reasoning chains before producing responses…
Interpreting Large Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Dictionary Learning
Stepan Shabalin, Ayush Panda, Dmitrii Kharlapenko +3
Sparse autoencoders are a promising new approach for decomposing language model activations for interpretation and control. They have been applied successfully to vision transforme…
Scaling sparse feature circuit finding for in-context learning
Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Stepan Shabalin, Fazl Barez +2
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular tool for interpreting large language model activations, but their utility in addressing open questions in interpretability remains unclear.…
An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security
Rohin Shah, Alex Irpan, Alexander Matt Turner +27
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises transformative benefits but also presents significant risks. We develop an approach to address the risk of harms consequential enough…
SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders in Language Model Interpretability
Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Johnny Lin +12
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular technique for interpreting language model activations, and there is extensive recent work on improving SAE effectiveness. However, most pri…
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning In The Wild Is Not Always Faithful
Iván Arcuschin, Jett Janiak, Robert Krzyzanowski +3
Recent studies indicate that when faced with explicit biases in prompts, models often omit mentioning these biases in their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) output, revealing that verbalized…
Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
Lee Sharkey, Bilal Chughtai, Joshua Batson +26
Mechanistic interpretability aims to understand the computational mechanisms underlying neural networks' capabilities in order to accomplish concrete scientific and engineering goa…