Equation 3 · Part 1 · How Mechanistic Interpretability Research Is Actually Done
Symbol y
What this part means
y is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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y is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol y→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
…separately trained classifier to predict some property of interest directly from those vectors, while the model’s own weights stay frozen. Formally, for an activation read out at layer and a binary property y ,
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Understanding Intermediate Layers Using Linear Classifier Probes ↗
- [3] Probing Classifiers: Promises, Shortcomings, and Advances ↗
- [2] Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control Tasks ↗
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