AutoCircuit

A library for efficient patching and automatic circuit discovery.

Read the paper

Transformer Circuit Metrics are not Robust (Oral spotlight, COLM 2024)

Getting Started

pip install auto-circuit

Easy and Efficient Edge Patching

https://github.com/UFO-101/auto-circuit/blob/03ce552ccdea98fc6fed3b05cfb2df9b0eb4e323/experiments/demos/zero_ablate_an_edge.py#L20-L26

Different Ablation Methods

https://github.com/UFO-101/auto-circuit/blob/03ce552ccdea98fc6fed3b05cfb2df9b0eb4e323/experiments/demos/patch_an_edge.py#L37

Automatic Circuit Discovery

https://github.com/UFO-101/auto-circuit/blob/03ce552ccdea98fc6fed3b05cfb2df9b0eb4e323/experiments/demos/patch_an_edge.py#L49-L55

Visualization

https://github.com/UFO-101/auto-circuit/blob/5777057b445d55b7d4695eed8aface9d6bcefbe3/experiments/demos/patch_some_edges.py#L49

Cite this repo

@inproceedings{
  miller2024transformer,
  title={Transformer Circuit Evaluation Metrics Are Not Robust},
  author={Joseph Miller and Bilal Chughtai and William Saunders},
  booktitle={First Conference on Language Modeling},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=zSf8PJyQb2}
}