3 papers
cs.AI2026
Necessary, Decodable and Reversible, Yet Not Transferable: A Stress Test for Attention-Head Role Claims
Philip Quirke
Mechanistic studies often assign a component a role when removing it damages a behavior, its activation linearly encodes task information, and restoring that activation repairs the…
cs.CY2026
Make Mechanistic Interpretability Auditable: A Call to Develop Guidelines via Continuous Collaborative Reviewing
Michael Lan, Narmeen Fatimah Oozeer, Chaithanya Bandi +4
While mechanistic interpretability (MI) has produced important insights into neural network internals, the field has yet to establish a standardized system to audit experiments. As…
cs.LG2024
Planning in a recurrent neural network that plays Sokoban
Mohammad Taufeeque, Philip Quirke, Maximilian Li +4
Planning is essential for solving complex tasks, yet the internal mechanisms underlying planning in neural networks remain poorly understood. Building on prior work, we analyze a r…