5 papers
From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability
Ward Gauderis, Thomas Dooms, Steven T. Homer +2
Mechanistic interpretability aims to explain neural model behaviour by reverse-engineering learned computational structure into human-understandable components. Without a formal fr…
Auditing Games for Sandbagging
Jordan Taylor, Sid Black, Dillon Bowen +10
Future AI systems could conceal their capabilities ('sandbagging') during evaluations, potentially misleading developers and auditors. We stress-tested sandbagging detection techni…
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…
Evaluating Explanations: An Explanatory Virtues Framework for Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.ii
Kola Ayonrinde, Louis Jaburi
Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) aims to understand neural networks through causal explanations. Though MI has many explanation-generating methods, progress has been limited by th…
A Mathematical Philosophy of Explanations in Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.i
Kola Ayonrinde, Louis Jaburi
Mechanistic Interpretability aims to understand neural networks through causal explanations. We argue for the Explanatory View Hypothesis: that Mechanistic Interpretability researc…