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pith:2023:HR6OHQBWAVNHFM6GVJGNUSEO2Z

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Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability

Amir Zur, Aryaman Arora, Atticus Geiger, Christopher Potts, Duligur Ibeling, Jing Huang, Maheep Chaudhary, Noah Goodman, Sonakshi Chauhan, Thomas Icard, Zhengxuan Wu

arxiv:2301.04709 v4 · 2023-01-11 · cs.AI

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Canonical hash

3c7ce3c036055a72b3c6aa4cda488ed6759533faa5ed5e7757430f369b78ba65

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arxiv: 2301.04709 · arxiv_version: 2301.04709v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.04709 · pith_short_12: HR6OHQBWAVNH · pith_short_16: HR6OHQBWAVNHFM6G · pith_short_8: HR6OHQBW

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HR6OHQBWAVNHFM6GVJGNUSEO2Z \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 3c7ce3c036055a72b3c6aa4cda488ed6759533faa5ed5e7757430f369b78ba65

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-11T20:42:41Z",
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  },
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