Summary of Contrastive Sparse Autoencoders For Interpreting Planning Of Chess-playing Agents, by Yoann Poupart
Contrastive Sparse Autoencoders for Interpreting Planning of Chess-Playing Agents
by Yoann Poupart
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the issue of transparency in AI decision-making systems, which are often black-box algorithms that rely heavily on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). While recent interpretability work has shown that DNN inner representations can be understood, these methods typically focus on a single hidden state and struggle to interpret multi-step reasoning. To address this limitation, the authors propose contrastive sparse autoencoders (CSAE), a novel framework for analyzing pairs of game trajectories in chess. Using CSAE, they extract and interpret meaningful concepts related to chess-agent plans, focusing on qualitative analysis and automated feature taxonomy. The paper also develops sanity checks to ensure the quality of their trained CSAE models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research is about making AI systems more transparent so we can understand how they make decisions. Right now, many AI systems are like black boxes that don’t reveal their thinking process. This makes it difficult for us to trust these systems when they’re making important decisions. The authors of this paper propose a new way to study how AI systems think by looking at the patterns in chess games. They use this method to understand what’s going on inside an AI’s “brain” and identify meaningful concepts related to its decision-making process. |
