Equation 7 · Part 3 · What a Circuit Explains: The State and Limits of Mechanistic Interpretability
Symbol m
What this part means
m is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
m is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
…run it on a corrupted one, then substitute the activations of a chosen component from one run into the other and measure the change in some behavioural metric. Formally, for a set of components and a metric m , . Meng and colleagues used a version of this — causal tracing — to localise factual recall, finding that a distinct set of steps in middle-layer feed-forward modules mediate factual predictions at the subject token, and then used the localisation to perform rank-one weight…
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