Generative Interpretability via Scalable Neuro-Symbolic Models
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arXiv:2609.13529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the use of Large Language Models moves from chatbots into agentic systems, where outputs become actions with irreversible consequences on reality, the existing paradigm on AI Interpretability research, post-hoc interpretability, is structurally inadequate for safe and trustworthy model deployment: it explains behavior after the fact but cannot audit or intervene in an inference computation before it commits to an output. We therefore argue for a shift toward \emph{generative interpretability}, an architectural property under which a model's
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- arXiv:2609.13529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the use of Large Language Models moves from chatbots into agentic systems, where outputs become actions with irreversible consequences on reality, the existing paradigm on AI Interpretability research, post-hoc interpretability, is structurally inadequate for safe and trustworthy model deployment: it explains behavior after the fact but cannot audit or intervene in an inference computation before it commits to an output.
- We therefore argue for a shift toward \emph{generative interpretability}, an architectural property under which a model's
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