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title: "interpretability: 13 curated resources"
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# interpretability: 13 curated resources

interpretability

[Beginner](/safety-security-interpretability/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/safety-security-interpretability/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/safety-security-interpretability/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/safety-security-interpretability/expert/index.md)

13 resources · page 1 of 1

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### [Transformer Circuits Thread](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/model-welfare-interpretability/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/)

Transformer Circuits Thread: Anthropic interpretability research series reverse-engineering transformer models.

entity org US; international en 

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### [Neuronpedia](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/neuronpedia/index.md)

by [Neuronpedia](https://neuronpedia.org/)

Neuronpedia: open-source interpretability platform for exploring sparse autoencoder features and circuits.

entity lab US en 

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### [SAELens](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/saelens/index.md)

by [Decode Research](https://decoderesearch.org)

SAELens GitHub repo: training and analysing sparse autoencoders on language models.

entity repo Global en 

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### [TransformerLens](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/transformerlens/index.md)

by [TransformerLensOrg](https://github.com/TransformerLensOrg)

TransformerLens GitHub repo: library for mechanistic interpretability of GPT-style language models.

entity repo US en 

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### [Transluce](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/transluce/index.md)

by [Transluce](https://transluce.org/)

Transluce: nonprofit lab building open tools for AI oversight and interpretability.

entity lab US en 

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### [Apollo Research: Science](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/apollo-research/index.md)

by [Apollo Research](https://apolloresearch.ai/)

Apollo Research science page listing its research and pre-deployment evaluations on AI scheming and mitigations.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs UK en 

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### [Interpretable Machine Learning](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/interpretable-machine-learning/index.md)

by [Christoph Molnar](https://christophm.github.io/)

Christoph Molnar's Interpretable Machine Learning book: free online guide to explainability methods and their limits.

Intermediate learning_resource guide Germany en 

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### [How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/neel-nanda-getting-started-in-mech-interp/index.md)

by [Neel Nanda](https://www.neelnanda.io/)

Neel Nanda's AI Alignment Forum guide on how to become a mechanistic interpretability researcher, which replaced his earlier getting-started page.

Intermediate learning_resource guide UK en 

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### [Goodfire research](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/goodfire-research/index.md)

by [Goodfire](https://goodfire.com/)

Goodfire research page: interpretability research on understanding and editing the internals of AI models.

Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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### [InterpretML](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/interpretml/index.md)

by [Microsoft (InterpretML)](https://interpret.ml/)

InterpretML: open-source toolkit for glassbox models and explaining ML model behaviour.

Advanced learning_resource docs US; international en 

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### [Tracing the thoughts of a large language model](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/tracing-the-thoughts-of-a-large-language-model/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://anthropic.com/)

Anthropic interpretability research tracing internal mechanisms of Claude with attribution graphs.

Advanced learning_resource paper US en 

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### [A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/a-mathematical-framework-for-transformer-circuits/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/)

Anthropic Transformer Circuits paper A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021).

Expert learning_resource paper US en 

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### [On the Biology of a Large Language Model](/security-and-red-teaming/safety-and-alignment-evals/on-the-biology-of-a-large-language-model/index.md)

by [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/)

Anthropic Transformer Circuits paper On the Biology of a Large Language Model: attribution graphs on Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Expert learning_resource paper US en 

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