Transformer Lens Interpretability

Provides guidance for mechanistic interpretability research using TransformerLens to inspect and manipulate transformer internals via HookPoints and activation caching. Use when reverse-engineering model algorithms, studying attention patterns, or performing activation patching experiments.

Originally published by orchestra. Licensed under MIT. View original: https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs/tree/main/04-mechanistic-interpretability/transformer-lens

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