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A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits

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Transformer language models are an emerging technology that is gaining increasingly broad real-world use, for example in systems like GPT-3 , LaMDA , Codex , Meena , Gopher , and similar models.  However, as these models scale, their open-endedness and high capacity creates an increasing scope for unexpected and sometimes harmful behaviors.  Even years after a large model is trained, both creators and users routinely discover model capabilities – including problematic behaviors – they were previously unaware of.

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits Transformer Circuits Thread A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits Authors Nelson Elhage ∗† , Neel Nanda ∗ , Catherine Olsson ∗ , Tom Henighan † , Nicholas Joseph † , Ben Mann † , Amanda Askell, Yuntao Bai, Anna Chen, Tom Conerly, Nova DasSarma, Dawn Drain, Deep Ganguli, Zac Hatfield-Dodds , Danny Hernandez, Andy Jones, Jackson Kernion, Liane Lovitt, Kamal Ndousse, Dario Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Chris Olah ‡ Affiliation Anthropic Published Dec 22, 2021 * Core Research Contributor; † Core Infrastruc

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