Causal Mediation Analysis

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• Causal Mediation of Model Outputsconcept0.830
  The extent to which a probe direction, when intervened upon, actually changes model outputs — contrasted with mere classification accuracy
• Causal abstraction analysismethod0.805
  The formal method used to establish that the identified circuit causally mediates the model's cyclic reasoning behavior
• Causal Mechanismconcept0.788
  Function determining the value of a variable based on its causal parents in an acyclic causal model.
• Causal Intervention on Representationsconcept0.769
  The use of interventions (rather than correlations) to establish a causal link between representation geometry and behavioral geometry.
• Deterministic Causal Modelconcept0.766
  Formal representation of algorithms as directed acyclic graphs computing functions f_A
• Causal Theories of Actionconcept0.765
  Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
• causal maskingconcept0.764
  Attention restricted to previous tokens only, as in decoder-only models; leads to AR(ω)-like behaviour and no ordered phase
• Causal abstractionconcept0.760
  A framework the paper uses alongside feature geometry to deepen mechanistic understanding of LMs