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Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Localizing Model Behavior with Path Patching cites this paper.

Localizing Model Behavior with Path Patching Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Linear Representations of Sentiment in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Linear Representations of Sentiment in Large Language Models Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models cites this paper.

Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Factored space models: Towards causality between levels of abstraction cites this paper.

Factored space models: Towards causality between levels of abstraction Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Removing Spurious Correlation from Neural Network Interpretations cites this paper.

Removing Spurious Correlation from Neural Network Interpretations Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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What is causal about causal models and representations? cites this paper.

What is causal about causal models and representations? Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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MIB: A Mechanistic Interpretability Benchmark cites this paper.

MIB: A Mechanistic Interpretability Benchmark Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Evaluating Explanations: An Explanatory Virtues Framework for Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.ii cites this paper.

Evaluating Explanations: An Explanatory Virtues Framework for Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.ii Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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$K$-MSHC: Unmasking Minimally Sufficient Head Circuits in Large Language Models with Experiments on Syntactic Classification Tasks cites this paper.

$K$-MSHC: Unmasking Minimally Sufficient Head Circuits in Large Language Models with Experiments on Syntactic Classification Tasks Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors cites this paper.

Beyond Black-Box Obfuscation: Mechanistic Analysis and Defense of White-Box Monitors Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Explaining Neural Networks with Reasons cites this paper.

Explaining Neural Networks with Reasons Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Position: Mechanistic Interpretability Should Prioritize Feature Consistency in SAEs cites this paper.

Position: Mechanistic Interpretability Should Prioritize Feature Consistency in SAEs Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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How Do Transformers Learn Variable Binding in Symbolic Programs? cites this paper.

How Do Transformers Learn Variable Binding in Symbolic Programs? Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Identifying a Circuit for Verb Conjugation in GPT-2 cites this paper.

Identifying a Circuit for Verb Conjugation in GPT-2 Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Hierarchy of Criteria cites this paper.

Identifiability in Causal Abstractions: A Hierarchy of Criteria Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Can Interpretation Predict Behavior on Unseen Data? cites this paper.

Can Interpretation Predict Behavior on Unseen Data? Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Learning Nonlinear Causal Reductions to Explain Reinforcement Learning Policies cites this paper.

Learning Nonlinear Causal Reductions to Explain Reinforcement Learning Policies Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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How does Chain of Thought Think? Mechanistic Interpretability of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Sparse Autoencoding cites this paper.

How does Chain of Thought Think? Mechanistic Interpretability of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Sparse Autoencoding Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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LLMs Should Not Yet Be Credited with Decision Explanation cites this paper.

LLMs Should Not Yet Be Credited with Decision Explanation Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Bucketing the Good Apples: A Method for Diagnosing and Improving Causal Abstraction cites this paper.

Bucketing the Good Apples: A Method for Diagnosing and Improving Causal Abstraction Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability cites this paper.

From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Correcting Influence: Unboxing LLM Outputs with Orthogonal Latent Spaces cites this paper.

Correcting Influence: Unboxing LLM Outputs with Orthogonal Latent Spaces Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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From Weight Perturbation to Feature Attribution for Explaining Fully Connected Neural Networks cites this paper.

From Weight Perturbation to Feature Attribution for Explaining Fully Connected Neural Networks Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Causal Tongue-Tie: LLMs Can Encode Causal Direction, But Their Yes/No Outputs Fail to Express Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Probing LLMs for Syntactic Structure Beyond Universal Dependencies: A Minimalist Phase Account in English Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Probing LLMs for Syntactic Structure Beyond Universal Dependencies: A Minimalist Phase Account in English cites this paper.

Probing LLMs for Syntactic Structure Beyond Universal Dependencies: A Minimalist Phase Account in English Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Temporal Preference Concepts and their Functions in a Large Language Model cites this paper.

Temporal Preference Concepts and their Functions in a Large Language Model Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Temporal Preference Concepts and their Functions in a Large Language Model cites this paper.

Temporal Preference Concepts and their Functions in a Large Language Model Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Characterize Then Distill: Mechanistic Reasoning in Large Output Spaces cites this paper.

Characterize Then Distill: Mechanistic Reasoning in Large Output Spaces Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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When Behavioral Safety Evaluation Fails: A Representation-Level Perspective cites this paper.

When Behavioral Safety Evaluation Fails: A Representation-Level Perspective Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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XtrAIn: Training-Guided Occlusion for Feature Attribution cites this paper.

XtrAIn: Training-Guided Occlusion for Feature Attribution Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Interpreting Neural Combinatorial Optimization via Evolving Programmatic Bottlenecks cites this paper.

Interpreting Neural Combinatorial Optimization via Evolving Programmatic Bottlenecks Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Steering Vision-Language Models with Joint Sparse Autoencoders cites this paper.

Steering Vision-Language Models with Joint Sparse Autoencoders Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor cites this paper.

Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor cites this paper.

Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Are Single-Token Sparse Autoencoder Features Causally Necessary? Layer-Depth and SAE-Family Effects cites this paper.

Are Single-Token Sparse Autoencoder Features Causally Necessary? Layer-Depth and SAE-Family Effects Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

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