Equation 4 · Running an Interpretability Investigation That Holds Up
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which climbs toward certainty well before k reaches the size of a typical layer-by-layer or head-by-head sweep. A held-out set of prompts, reserved and untouched until the hypothesis is fixed, is the practical fix, and it only works if the hypothesis really was fixed first.
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- [1] Towards A Rigorous Science of Interpretable Machine Learning ↗
- [2] Interpretability in the Wild: a Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small ↗
- [3] Towards Best Practices of Activation Patching in Language Models: Metrics and Methods ↗
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