Awesome Mechanistic Interpretability Papers

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A GitHub reading list aggregating mechanistic interpretability papers; useful as a literature survey starting point for researchers studying how language models implement computations internally, though last updated in late 2024.

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A curated GitHub repository collecting and organizing influential research papers on mechanistic interpretability of language models. It serves as a community reference for researchers studying how neural networks implement computations internally, covering topics like circuits, features, attention heads, and sparse autoencoders.

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•Curated list of ~100+ papers on mechanistic interpretability specifically focused on language models
•Organized by topic areas including circuits, features, attention mechanisms, and sparse autoencoders
•Community-maintained resource with 231 stars, serving as a starting point for researchers entering the field
•Covers both foundational works and recent advances in understanding internal model representations
•Useful for tracking the breadth of mechanistic interpretability research across different model behaviors

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