Summary of Patchscopes: a Unifying Framework For Inspecting Hidden Representations Of Language Models, by Asma Ghandeharioun et al.
Patchscopes: A Unifying Framework for Inspecting Hidden Representations of Language Models
by Asma Ghandeharioun, Avi Caciularu, Adam Pearce, Lucas Dixon, Mor Geva
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel framework called Patchscopes is proposed to understand the internal representations of large language models (LLMs), enabling the verification of their alignment with human values. By leveraging the LLM itself, Patchscopes can answer various questions about its computation, offering a more comprehensive understanding of its behavior. This approach unifies and improves upon prior interpretability methods, which were limited in their ability to inspect early layers or lack expressivity. Additionally, Patchscopes enables the use of a more capable model to explain the representations of a smaller model, as well as multihop reasoning error correction. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools that can generate human-understandable text. But have you ever wondered how they work or what they’re thinking? Scientists want to understand the internal representations of LLMs because it can help us figure out why they behave in certain ways and make sure their values align with ours. The researchers propose a new way called Patchscopes that lets them ask questions about an LLM’s computation, like “What’s going on in this part of the model?” or “How does this word relate to other words?” This approach can help us understand how LLMs work and make them more useful. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment
