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Characterizing Mechanisms for Factual Recall in Language Models
Qinan Yu, Jack Merullo, Ellie Pavlick
Language Models (LMs) often must integrate facts they memorized in pretraining with new information that appears in a given context. These two sources can disagree, causing competi…
Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
Jack Merullo, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick
Recent work in mechanistic interpretability has shown that behaviors in language models can be successfully reverse-engineered through circuit analysis. A common criticism, however…
Language Models Implement Simple Word2Vec-style Vector Arithmetic
Jack Merullo, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick
A primary criticism towards language models (LMs) is their inscrutability. This paper presents evidence that, despite their size and complexity, LMs sometimes exploit a simple vect…