ConceptActivation Patching
Activation Patching
A causal intervention technique that replaces or restores activation values at specific model layers to observe the effect on outputs, and is used to localize key computation nodes.
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Oct 16
The core tools of causal intervention are activation patching and causal tracing; this method has been validated as effective in tasks such as factual recall and syntactic processing, and here it is systematically applied for the first time to circuit localization in low-resource translation.
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