The paper investigates mechanistic interpretability, focusing on how automated circuit discovery is evaluated. It shows that the commonly used faithfulness objective can favor circuits that reproduce a model’s behavior poorly, creating an objective-level recovery gap. Experiments on four human-reference tasks and InterpBench reveal that many discovery methods misrank candidate circuits, and that restoring excluded signals can correct most of these misrankings without altering the circuits’ behavior.
By Chuqin Geng, Li Zhang, Haolin Ye, Mark Zhang, Luke Zhang, Xujie Si
The paper introduces four distinct evaluation levels—schema validity, topological validity, backend executability, and component‑set agreement—to assess large language model‑generated electrical circuits. Using a 150‑circuit trilingual benchmark and a typed circuit interchange pipeline, the authors show that each level captures errors missed by the others, with significant discrepancies observed between validator rejections and ngspice execution outcomes. A repair study further demonstrates that targeted model adjustments can markedly improve topological validity while having mixed effects on executability and component agreement.
By Ali Hedayati Pirouzan
arXiv:2608. 13754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EU AI Act requires providers of high-risk systems to file technical documentation describing how the system reaches its decisions.
By Ajay Pravin Mahale (Hochschule Trier)
Simulation success is not equivalent to structural correctness for LLM-generated circuits. We define and measure four evaluation levels -- schema validity, topological validity, backend executability,...
arXiv:2608. 07914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioral contamination detectors can return "no evidence" either because a benchmark is clean or because the audit has little power.
By Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma
arXiv:2609.23549v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Screening oxygen-evolution catalysts on combinatorial libraries requires deciding which candidates receive the remaining measurements. The deciding act...
By Yong-Woon Kim, Jihyeok Lee, Sungtae Park, Sooseok Choi, Yung-Cheol Byun