Automatic Discovery of Visual Circuits
<|reference_start|>Automatic Discovery of Visual Circuits: To date, most discoveries of network subcomponents that implement human-interpretable computations in deep vision models have involved close study of single units and large amounts of human labor. We explore scalable methods for extracting the subgraph of a vision model's computational graph that underlies recognition of a specific visual concept. We introduce a new method for identifying these subgraphs: specifying a visual concept using a few examples, and then tracing the interdependence of neuron activations across layers, or their functional connectivity. We find that our approach extracts circuits that causally affect model output, and that editing these circuits can defend large pretrained models from adversarial attacks.<|reference_end|>
@article{rajaram2024automatic,
    title={Automatic Discovery of Visual Circuits},
    author={Achyuta Rajaram, Neil Chowdhury, Antonio Torralba, Jacob Andreas,
  Sarah Schwettmann},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14349},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.14349},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI}
}