Utsav Avaiya

Faithfulness to Refusal: A Causal Audit of Neuron Selectors

Ananth Eswar, Pratinav Seth, Utsav Avaiya, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

Attribution scores increasingly identify which neuron rows of a language model matter for applications such as pruning, interpretability, and editing for safety, yet whether they identify causally important rows is rarely tested directly. We address this with two paired audits bu…Read more