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Mechanistic interpretability

Mechanistic interpretability (sometimes abbreviated as mech interp, mechinterp, or MI) is a subfield of research within explainable artificial intelligence that aims to understand the internal workings of neural networks by analyzing their concrete structures, algorithms and circuits. This approach seeks to analyze neural networks in a manner similar to…

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feature visualizationinstance ofwork in the subfield combined various techniques0.80text
dimensionality reductioninstance ofwork in the subfield combined various techniques0.80text
and attribution with human-computer interaction methods to analyze models like the vision model Inception v1instance ofwork in the subfield combined various techniques0.80text
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