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Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model shows causal transfer in symbolic domains

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Researchers have conducted a pre-specified construction-confirmation test to investigate causal transfer in symbolic domains within a frozen Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model. The study focused on a specific route, 'integer_mod16--letters16--successor->predecessor', which passed two PyVene splits with a confirmation intersection-union p-value of 0.000198. A subsequent NNsight experiment replicated these findings numerically, confirming the effect estimates and p-values. AI

IMPACT This research provides a method for testing causal transfer in symbolic domains, potentially improving interpretability and understanding of LLM behavior.

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Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model shows causal transfer in symbolic domains

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Xinyi Shan ·

    A Pre-Specified Construction-Confirmation Test of Operation-Level Causal Transfer Across Finite Isomorphic Symbolic Domains

    arXiv:2608.15809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioral accuracy, linear decodability, and successful activation interventions do not by themselves show that a model carries an operation-level structure from one symbolic domain to another. We ask a narrower question in finite …

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