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Probe-based method bridges interpretability (probes/activations) with data-centric alignment work

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Probe-Based Data Attribution: Surfacing and Mitigating Undesirable Behaviors in LLM Post-Training

(2026) · Frank Xiao · Santiago Aranguri

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Mechanistic interpretability & model evaluation
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Spans attention head decomposition, benchmark awareness, and genomic pathogenicity prediction via neural models.
Mechanistic interpretability via parameter decomposition
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Tracing information flow through weight matrices and attention heads using attribution graphs to identify causally important subcomponents in language models.
Probe-based training data attribution
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Uses linear probes on activations to identify and filter harmful training data cheaply (~$30).
Activation-based interpretability and mechanistic grounding
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Uses probes, activation patching, and mechanistic analysis to ground abstract concepts in model computations, bridging interpretability with data-centric alignment.

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Probe-Based Data Attribution
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Linear classifier approach applied to model activations to identify which training datapoints caused undesired behaviors in post-training.

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Probe-based data attribution bridges interpretability work (probes/activations) with data-centric alignment.claim0.884
Conceptual framing: integrates mechanistic interpretability tools with alignment-focused data curation.
Probe-based data attribution for alignmentconcept0.830
Probes trained under different explicit instruction variants are highly aligned with each other despite different wording.claim0.785
Shows the key divide is passive vs. active framing, not the specific wording of instructions.
A probe may achieve high performance even on representations that are not causally relevant for the taskclaim0.784
Key interpretive claim from Case Study II distinguishing probe accuracy from causal relevance
Probe-based data attribution effectively reduces harmful behaviors via data interventionsclaim0.772
Authors' central interpretive assertion that their method meaningfully mitigates unwanted behaviors.
Are high-accuracy probe representations also causally relevant for the task?question0.770
Question raised by the discrepancy between DAS IIA and linear probe accuracy in Case Study II
Probes trained under different explicit instruction prompts (ask-correct, ask-t/f, ask-able, ask-arith) are highly aligned with each other in cosine similarity.finding0.770
Shows the passive vs. active divide is more important than the specific wording of instructions.
Activation-based interpretability does not immediately explain the computations that gave rise to activations; understanding parameters is necessary for deeper insightclaim0.768
Motivates shift from studying model activations ('thoughts') to understanding parameters ('the computations themselves').