Raffaello Fornasiere

The Model Organism Lottery: Model Organism Interpretability Strongly Depends on Training Methodology

Andrzej Szablewski, Gabriel Konar-Steenberg, Raffaello Fornasiere, Nikita Menon, Stefan Heimersheim

Model organisms (MOs) - language models trained to exhibit undesired or unnatural behaviours - are frequently used as testbeds for evaluating white-box interpretability techniques. Current MOs are typically constructed via post-hoc supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on behavioural tran…Read more