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Michael Hanna @michaelwhanna.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'll be presenting this in person at NAACL, tomorrow at 11am in Ballroom C! Come on by - I'd love to chat with folks about this and all things interp / cog sci!

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Aaron Mueller @amuuueller.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Lots of progress in mech interp (MI) lately! But how can we measure when new mech interp methods yield real improvements over prior work? We propose 😎 𝗠𝗜𝗕: a 𝗠echanistic 𝗜nterpretability 𝗕enchmark!

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Aaron Mueller @amuuueller.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

(NAACL) When reading a sentence, humans predict what's likely to come next. When the ending is unexpected, this leads to garden-path effects: e.g., "The child bought an ice cream smiled." Do LLMs show similar mechanisms? @michaelwhanna.bsky.social and I investigate: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05353

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Incremental Sentence Processing Mechanisms in Autoregressive Transformer Language Models

Autoregressive transformer language models (LMs) possess strong syntactic abilities, often successfully handling phenomena from agreement to NPI licensing. However, the features they use to incrementa...

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Adi Simhi @adisimhi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚨New arXiv preprint!🚨 LLMs can hallucinate - but did you know they can do so with high certainty even when they know the correct answer? 🤯 We find those hallucinations in our latest work with @itay-itzhak.bsky.social, @fbarez.bsky.social, @gabistanovsky.bsky.social and Yonatan Belinkov

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Michael Hanna @michaelwhanna.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Excited to say that this was accepted to NAACL—looking forward to presenting it in Albuquerque!

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨Call for Papers🚨 The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025 Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at @iclr-conf.bsky.social Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd representational-alignment.github.io

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Michael Hanna @michaelwhanna.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sentences are partially understood before they're fully read. How do LMs incrementally interpret their inputs? In a new paper, @amuuueller.bsky.social and I use mech interp tools to study how LMs process structurally ambiguous sentences. We show LMs rely on both syntactic & spurious features! 1/10

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Ana Lučić @a-lucic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨 I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

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PhD Position in Mechanistic Interpretability

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