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So, what is #MechanisticInterpretability 🤔
Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) is the discipline of opening the black box of large language models (and other neural networks) to understand the underlying circuits, features and/or mechanisms that give rise to specific behaviours
Instead of treating a model as a monolithic function, we can:
1. Trace how input tokens propagate through attention heads & MLP layers
2. Identify localized “circuit motifs”
3. Develop methods to systematically break down or “edit” these circuits to confirm we understand the causal structure.
Mechanistic Interpretability aims to yield human-understandable explanations of how advanced models represent and manipulate concepts which hopefully leads to
1. Trust & Reliability
2. Safety & Alignment
3. Better Debugging / Development Insights
https://bsky.app/profile/mechanistics.bsky.social/post/3lgvvv72uls2x
Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) is the discipline of opening the black box of large language models (and other neural networks) to understand the underlying circuits, features and/or mechanisms that give rise to specific behaviours
Instead of treating a model as a monolithic function, we can:
1. Trace how input tokens propagate through attention heads & MLP layers
2. Identify localized “circuit motifs”
3. Develop methods to systematically break down or “edit” these circuits to confirm we understand the causal structure.
Mechanistic Interpretability aims to yield human-understandable explanations of how advanced models represent and manipulate concepts which hopefully leads to
1. Trust & Reliability
2. Safety & Alignment
3. Better Debugging / Development Insights
https://bsky.app/profile/mechanistics.bsky.social/post/3lgvvv72uls2x