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Transformer Lens Interpretability

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Provides guidance for mechanistic interpretability research using TransformerLens to inspect and manipulate transformer internals via HookPoints and activation caching. Use when reverse-engineering model algorithms, studying attention patterns, or performing activation patching experiments.

Purpose

To empower researchers and practitioners to deeply inspect and manipulate transformer model internals for mechanistic interpretability studies using the TransformerLens library.

Features

  • Inspect and manipulate transformer internals via HookPoints
  • Perform activation caching and patching experiments
  • Analyze attention patterns and information flow
  • Reverse-engineer learned model algorithms
  • Support for 50+ transformer models including LLaMA and Mistral

Use Cases

  • Reverse-engineering algorithms learned by transformer models
  • Performing activation patching and causal tracing experiments
  • Studying attention patterns and information flow within models
  • Analyzing specific circuits like induction heads or IOI circuits

Non-Goals

  • Working with non-transformer architectures
  • Training or analyzing Sparse Autoencoders
  • Remote execution on massive models requiring specialized infrastructure
  • Higher-level causal intervention abstractions better suited to other libraries

Installation

First, add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs
/plugin install AI-Research-SKILLs@ai-research-skills

Quality Score

Verified
99 /100
Analyzed about 20 hours ago

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