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Survey The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis

Aaron Mueller Jannik Brinkmann Millicent Li Samuel Marks Koyena Pal Nikhil Prakash A. Sankaranarayanan Arnab Sen Sharma Jiuding Sun Eric Todd David Bau Yonatan Belinkov

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The history and current state of interpretability taxonomized according to the types of causal units utilized, as well as methods used to search over mediators are described.

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