Mechanistic faithfulness

Idea that decomposed components must causally reflect the model's computation; enforced by adversarial ablation in VPD.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Adversarial ablations enforce mechanistic faithfulness.
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Methodological claim that the adversarial ablation approach ensures decomposed components causally correspond to computation.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

faithfulnessconcept0.843
The condition that commitments are fulfilled.
Functional Faithfulnessconcept0.785
Empirical effect where intervening on one feature induces coherent shifts across multiple linguistic dimensions aligned with the target attribute.
Functional Faithfulness, whereby intervening on a specific internal feature induces coherent and predictable shifts across multiple linguistic dimensions aligned with the target semantic attribute.quote0.785
Definition of the newly named empirical effect.
Faithfulness of Explanationsconcept0.779
Property of explanations that accurately reflect the actual causal mechanisms of the model being explained.
Functional Faithfulness: intervening on a specific internal feature induces coherent and predictable shifts across multiple linguistic dimensions aligned with the target semantic attribute.finding0.767
Empirical effect observed in feature intervention experiments.
sincerityconcept0.745
A correctness condition requiring assertions to align with the program's beliefs.
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (Lanham et al. 2023)concept0.739
Cited regarding possibility of encoding misaligned reasoning in benign chains-of-thought
mechanistic explanationconcept0.733
Explanations derived from model internals that describe the biological mechanism of variant effect.