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Causal Intervention

Technique used to confirm that circular structures are real computational objects, not merely visualization artifacts.

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  • The use of interventions (rather than correlations) to establish a causal link between representation geometry and behavioral geometry.
  • Method of shifting hidden state activations along probe directions to cause the model to treat false statements as true and vice versa; evaluated on OOD inputs
  • Causal Mediationconcept0.847
    Whether an internal direction causally controls a target behavior, verified by intervention success
  • Intervening in model forward pass by adding/subtracting probe direction to group (b) hidden states to flip truth judgments
  • Property that additive modifications to activations affect all downstream computations, enabling tractable behavioral control
  • Causal Invarianceconcept0.810
    Property that causal mechanisms remain stable across environments; desirable for OOD.
  • Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
  • Causal Mechanismconcept0.805
    Function determining the value of a variable based on its causal parents in an acyclic causal model.