Equation 13 · Part 1 · Running an Interpretability Investigation That Holds Up
Symbol C
What this part means
C is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
C 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 C→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
A patching experiment produces two different kinds of statement, and the write-up has to keep them visibly separate. The first is a measurement: intervening on component set moved metric m by some amount, with some variance across prompts and random seeds, and the matched control ' moved it by some smaller amount. That is data. The second is an interpretation layered on top of it: that the component “represents,” “detects,” or “computes” some…
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Sources cited in the article section
- [11] Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability ↗
- [13] Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits ↗
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