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Interpretability

Understanding the black box

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Overview

Interpretability research aims to understand how AI models make decisions and what they've learned internally.

What is it?

Techniques for understanding what happens inside AI models.

Why it matters

Trust requires understanding. Interpretability helps us verify AI is learning the right things and making decisions for the right reasons.

How it works

Analyze attention patterns, probe internal representations, study how specific inputs affect outputs, and map concepts to neurons.

Real-World Examples

Attention Visualization

Seeing what the model focuses on

Feature Attribution

Which inputs influenced the output

Mechanistic Interpretability

Reverse-engineering model circuits

Tools & Libraries

TransformerLenslibrary

Mechanistic interpretability

Captumlibrary

Model interpretability for PyTorch

SHAPlibrary

Feature importance explanations