Causal abstraction analysis

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• Constructive Causal Abstractionconcept0.856
  Formal definition: H is a constructive abstraction of L under alignment Π when interchange interventions have equivalent effects at both levels.
• Approximate Causal Abstractionconcept0.849
  Graded notion of causal abstraction measured by IIA; when IIA is alpha < 100%, the model is alpha-on-average approximately abstract.
• Causal Abstraction over Cyclic Tasksconcept0.815
• Causal Mediation Analysisconcept0.805
  Framework for evaluating whether probe directions are causally implicated in model outputs via activation patching
• interpretive abstraction (method)method0.802
  Programming technique to restructure a fine-grained Linda program for efficiency by replacing live data structures with passive ones and coarser-grain processes.
• Causal abstraction theory is a unified framework that subsumes diverse intervention-based interpretability methods including LIME, causal mediation analysis, INLP, and circuit explanationsclaim0.801
  The paper endorses Geiger et al. 2023's claim that disparate interpretability methods are instances of causal abstraction.
• Causal Emergenceconcept0.778
  Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
• Causal Tracingconcept0.775
  Mechanistic interpretability technique for locating factual associations, mentioned as future work direction.