4 papers
BlackboxNLP-2025 MIB Shared Task: Improving Circuit Faithfulness via Better Edge Selection
Yaniv Nikankin, Dana Arad, Itay Itzhak +4
One of the main challenges in mechanistic interpretability is circuit discovery, determining which parts of a model perform a given task. We build on the Mechanistic Interpretabili…
HACK: Hallucinations Along Certainty and Knowledge Axes
Adi Simhi, Jonathan Herzig, Itay Itzhak +7
Hallucinations in LLMs present a critical barrier to their reliable usage. Existing research usually categorizes hallucination by their external properties rather than by the LLMs'…
Planted in Pretraining, Swayed by Finetuning: A Case Study on the Origins of Cognitive Biases in LLMs
Itay Itzhak, Yonatan Belinkov, Gabriel Stanovsky
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit cognitive biases -- systematic tendencies of irrational decision-making, similar to those seen in humans. Prior work has found that these biase…
Trust Me, I'm Wrong: LLMs Hallucinate with Certainty Despite Knowing the Answer
Adi Simhi, Itay Itzhak, Fazl Barez +2
Prior work on large language model (LLM) hallucinations has associated them with model uncertainty or inaccurate knowledge. In this work, we define and investigate a distinct type…