Interpreting Transformers Through Attention Head Intervention
By: Mason Kadem, Rong Zheng
Potential Business Impact:
Helps us understand how AI thinks and makes choices.
Neural networks are growing more capable on their own, but we do not understand their neural mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms' decision-making processes, or mechanistic interpretability, enables (1) accountability and control in high-stakes domains, (2) the study of digital brains and the emergence of cognition, and (3) discovery of new knowledge when AI systems outperform humans.
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