6 papers
Sparse CLIP: Co-Optimizing Interpretability and Performance in Contrastive Learning
Chuan Qin, Constantin Venhoff, Sonia Joseph +2
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in vision-language representation learning, powering diverse downstream tasks and serving as the default vis…
Too Late to Recall: Explaining the Two-Hop Problem in Multimodal Knowledge Retrieval
Constantin Venhoff, Ashkan Khakzar, Sonia Joseph +2
Training vision language models (VLMs) aims to align visual representations from a vision encoder with the textual representations of a pretrained large language model (LLM). Howev…
Reasoning-Finetuning Repurposes Latent Representations in Base Models
Jake Ward, Chuqiao Lin, Constantin Venhoff +1
Backtracking, an emergent behavior elicited by reasoning fine-tuning, has been shown to be a key mechanism in reasoning models' enhanced capabilities. Prior work has succeeded in m…
How Visual Representations Map to Language Feature Space in Multimodal LLMs
Constantin Venhoff, Ashkan Khakzar, Sonia Joseph +2
Effective multimodal reasoning depends on the alignment of visual and linguistic representations, yet the mechanisms by which vision-language models (VLMs) achieve this alignment r…
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…
Mixture of Experts Made Intrinsically Interpretable
Xingyi Yang, Constantin Venhoff, Ashkan Khakzar +4
Neurons in large language models often exhibit \emph{polysemanticity}, simultaneously encoding multiple unrelated concepts and obscuring interpretability. Instead of relying on pos…