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Open-transformer circuit evidence

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id: vfr_c94f4f79b4e341ad
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findings: 42
accepted core: 14
contested: 0

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Can automated circuit discovery (ACDC, EAP, HAP) scale beyond 13B parameters to GPT-4 scale (100B+) without exponential growth in compute, and what is the theoretical lower bound on circuit faithfulness for any pruning-based method?

id: vea_5426514de013ec83
frontier: Open-transformer circuit evidence
source: vs_8c1dee0513603eb3
finding: vf_7945671662762af1

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Can automated circuit discovery (ACDC, EAP, HAP) scale beyond 13B parameters to GPT-4 scale (100B+) without exponential growth in compute, and what is the theoretical lower bound on circuit faithfulness for any pruning-based method?

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Discovering Transformer Circuits via a Hybrid Attribution and Pruning Framework (2024); Towards Automated Circuit Discovery for Mechanistic Interpretability (2024)

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Evidence statement

Can automated circuit discovery (ACDC, EAP, HAP) scale beyond 13B parameters to GPT-4 scale (100B+) without exponential growth in compute, and what is the theoretical lower bound on circuit faithfulness for any pruning-based method?

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vev_68a5539e47b9757efinding.asserted
Manual finding added to frontier state
reviewer:will-blair · 2026-05-29

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vpr_649aef38710c686bfinding.add
Manual finding added to frontier state
applied · reviewer:will-blair · 2026-05-29

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