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

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Title: The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis.
Authors: Mueller, Aaron1, amueller@bu.edu, Brinkmann, Jannik2, Li, Millicent3, Marks, Samuel4, Pal, Koyena3, Prakash, Nikhil3, Rager, Can3, Sankaranarayanan, Aruna5, Sharma, Arnab Sen3, Sun, Jiuding6, Todd, Eric3, Bau, David3, Belinkov, Yonatan7
Source: Computational Linguistics; Mar2026, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p331-378, 48p
Database: Applied Science & Technology Source
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