Section 132 · Chapter 16, Introspection: White-Box Testing Networks

Concept MLP Neurons

Candidate concept neurons can be useful probes for ideas like privacy, security, uncertainty, or hallucination, but they are not magic meaning cells.

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What to do

  1. Validate concept neurons with counterfactual datasets, ablations, activation patching, and slice labels.
  2. Do not promote a neuron to a production signal until it predicts something useful on held-out cases.
  3. Define runnable checks that exercise concept probe and concept mlp neurons.

Evidence to preserve

  • Preserve the inputs, versions, configurations, raw outcomes, and results for concept probe, concept mlp neurons needed to reproduce work on Concept MLP Neurons.
  • Report results for concept probe, concept mlp neurons by relevant slice, separate blocker failures from averages, state uncertainty and blind spots, and connect the result to a release decision.

Expert note

Validate concept neurons with counterfactual datasets, ablations, activation patching, and slice labels. Do not promote a neuron to a production signal until it predicts something useful on held-out cases.

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Jason Arbon. "Concept MLP Neurons." Testing AI Knowledge Edition, section 132.

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