4 papers
Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning
Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom +8
We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-reasoning versus STEM-reasoning i…
Bergson: An Open Source Library for Data Attribution
Lucia Quirke, Louis Jaburi, David Johnston +6
Data attribution is a promising field in interpretability that aims to explain model behavior through the influence of its training data, with applications including debugging unde…
Binary Sparse Coding for Interpretability
Lucia Quirke, Stepan Shabalin, Nora Belrose
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are used to decompose neural network activations into sparsely activating features, but many SAE features are only interpretable at high activation stren…
Slowing Learning by Erasing Simple Features
Lucia Quirke, Nora Belrose
Prior work suggests that neural networks tend to learn low-order moments of the data distribution first, before moving on to higher-order correlations. In this work, we derive a no…