ADAG: Automatically Describing Attribution Graphs
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| author | Arora, Aryaman Wu, Zhengxuan Steinhardt, Jacob Schwettmann, Sarah |
| author_facet | Arora, Aryaman Wu, Zhengxuan Steinhardt, Jacob Schwettmann, Sarah |
| contents | In language model interpretability research, \textbf{circuit tracing} aims to identify which internal features causally contributed to a particular output and how they affected each other, with the goal of explaining the computations underlying some behaviour. However, all prior circuit tracing work has relied on ad-hoc human interpretation of the role that each feature in the circuit plays, via manual inspection of data artifacts such as the dataset examples the component activates on. We introduce \textbf{ADAG}, an end-to-end pipeline for describing these attribution graphs which is fully automated. To achieve this, we introduce \textit{attribution profiles} which quantify the functional role of a feature via its input and output gradient effects. We then introduce a novel clustering algorithm for grouping features, and an LLM explainer--simulator setup which generates and scores natural-language explanations of the functional role of these feature groups. We run our system on known human-analysed circuit-tracing tasks and recover interpretable circuits, and further show ADAG can find steerable clusters which are responsible for a harmful advice jailbreak in Llama 3.1 8B Instruct. |
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| spellingShingle | ADAG: Automatically Describing Attribution Graphs Arora, Aryaman Wu, Zhengxuan Steinhardt, Jacob Schwettmann, Sarah Computation and Language I.2.7 In language model interpretability research, \textbf{circuit tracing} aims to identify which internal features causally contributed to a particular output and how they affected each other, with the goal of explaining the computations underlying some behaviour. However, all prior circuit tracing work has relied on ad-hoc human interpretation of the role that each feature in the circuit plays, via manual inspection of data artifacts such as the dataset examples the component activates on. We introduce \textbf{ADAG}, an end-to-end pipeline for describing these attribution graphs which is fully automated. To achieve this, we introduce \textit{attribution profiles} which quantify the functional role of a feature via its input and output gradient effects. We then introduce a novel clustering algorithm for grouping features, and an LLM explainer--simulator setup which generates and scores natural-language explanations of the functional role of these feature groups. We run our system on known human-analysed circuit-tracing tasks and recover interpretable circuits, and further show ADAG can find steerable clusters which are responsible for a harmful advice jailbreak in Llama 3.1 8B Instruct. |
| title | ADAG: Automatically Describing Attribution Graphs |
| topic | Computation and Language I.2.7 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07615 |