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Graph learning framework tackles transformer circuit localization

Researchers have introduced Graph Circuit Learning (GCL), a novel framework that treats circuit localization in transformer models as a graph machine learning problem. This approach trains a graph neural network (GNN) across multiple model-task pairs to identify sparse subgraphs responsible for specific behaviors. In evaluations, GCL configurations achieved a median edge AUROC of 0.902 on a benchmark dataset, showing promise for this perspective on circuit localization. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Chester Tan, Moritz Lampert, Courtney Maynard, Ankit Ramakrishnan, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Ingo Scholtes ·

    Can Graph Learning Learn Circuits?

    arXiv:2608.08536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circuit localization is a mechanistic interpretability task whose goal is to identify a sparse subgraph of a transformer's computation graph sufficient to reproduce a particular behavior. Most established methods localize circuits i…