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How Causal Abstraction Underpins Computational Explanation
Atticus Geiger, Jacqueline Harding, Thomas Icard
Explanations of cognitive behavior often appeal to computations over representations. What does it take for a system to implement a given computation over suitable representational…
Internal Causal Mechanisms Robustly Predict Language Model Out-of-Distribution Behaviors
Jing Huang, Junyi Tao, Thomas Icard +2
Interpretability research now offers a variety of techniques for identifying abstract internal mechanisms in neural networks. Can such techniques be used to predict how models will…
A Communication-First Account of Explanation
Jacqueline Harding, Tobias Gerstenberg, Thomas Icard
This paper develops a formal account of causal explanation, grounded in a theory of conversational pragmatics, and inspired by the interventionist idea that explanation is about as…
Modeling Discrimination with Causal Abstraction
Milan Mossé, Kara Schechtman, Frederick Eberhardt +1
A person is directly racially discriminated against only if her race caused her worse treatment. This implies that race is an attribute sufficiently separable from other attributes…