Interpretability and mechanistic analysis · MLD-0154
Causal intervention
A controlled change used to test how a system's outputs depend on a component or variable.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Replace one activation and observe output changes.
Original caveat
An intervention must isolate the claimed cause carefully.
Context and aliases
Level: Advanced. Stages: Research · Evaluation.
Tags: ML · DL · SLM · LLM · Interpretability · Safety.
Aliases: None recorded.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Captum model interpretability documentation ↗ · Reference link
- Tracing the thoughts of a large language model ↗ · Consulted
- Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning ↗ · Consulted
- SHAP documentation ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗