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Would this change your answer? Evaluating Explanations of LLM Behavior In The Wild with Counterfactual Experiments
Adam Karvonen, Euan Ong, Subhash Kantamneni +1
Many areas of AI research, such as language model interpretability and chain of thought faithfulness, seek to explain model behaviors. But what constitutes a "good" explanation? In…
Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning
Helena Casademunt, Caden Juang, Adam Karvonen +3
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) can lead to unintended out-of-distribution generalization. Standard approaches to this problem rely on modifying training data, for example…
Robustly Improving LLM Fairness in Realistic Settings via Interpretability
Adam Karvonen, Samuel Marks
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes hiring applications, making decisions that directly impact people's careers and livelihoods. While prior studi…
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 Sparse Autoencoders on Targeted Concept Erasure Tasks
Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Samuel Marks +1
Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are an interpretability technique aimed at decomposing neural network activations into interpretable units. However, a major bottleneck for SAE developme…
Erasing Conceptual Knowledge from Language Models
Rohit Gandikota, Sheridan Feucht, Samuel Marks +1
In this work, we introduce Erasure of Language Memory (ELM), a principled approach to concept-level unlearning that operates by matching distributions defined by the model's own in…
The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis
Aaron Mueller, Jannik Brinkmann, Millicent Li +10
Interpretability provides a toolset for understanding how and why neural networks behave in certain ways. However, there is little unity in the field: most studies employ ad-hoc ev…
Measuring Progress in Dictionary Learning for Language Model Interpretability with Board Game Models
Adam Karvonen, Benjamin Wright, Can Rager +6
What latent features are encoded in language model (LM) representations? Recent work on training sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to disentangle interpretable features in LM representati…
NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Open-Weight Foundation Model Internals
Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander R. Loftus, Eric Todd +17
We introduce NNsight and NDIF, technologies that work in tandem to enable scientific study of the representations and computations learned by very large neural networks. NNsight is…
Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models
Samuel Marks, Can Rager, Eric J. Michaud +3
We introduce methods for discovering and applying sparse feature circuits. These are causally implicated subnetworks of human-interpretable features for explaining language model b…
The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets
Samuel Marks, Max Tegmark
Large Language Models (LLMs) have impressive capabilities, but are prone to outputting falsehoods. Recent work has developed techniques for inferring whether a LLM is telling the t…
Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Stephen Casper, Xander Davies, Claudia Shi +29
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a technique for training AI systems to align with human goals. RLHF has emerged as the central method used to finetune state-of…