The Anatomy of Algorithmic Thought: A Comprehensive Treatise on Circuit Discovery, Reverse Engineering, and Mechanistic Interpretability in Transformer Models

Executive Summary The rapid ascendancy of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has outpaced our theoretical understanding of their internal operations. While their behavioral capabilities are well-documented, the underlying computational mechanisms—the Read More …

The Anatomy of Algorithmic Thought: A Comprehensive Treatise on Circuit Discovery, Reverse Engineering, and Mechanistic Interpretability in Transformer Models

Executive Summary The rapid ascendancy of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has outpaced our theoretical understanding of their internal operations. While their behavioral capabilities are well-documented, the underlying computational mechanisms—the Read More …

Decompiling the Mind of the Machine: A Comprehensive Analysis of Mechanistic Interpretability in Neural Networks

Part I: The Reverse Engineering Paradigm As artificial intelligence systems, particularly deep neural networks, achieve superhuman performance and become integrated into high-stakes domains, the imperative to understand their internal decision-making Read More …