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Integrate existing tools: Captum, LIT, AllenNLP Interpret, NeuroX into the HF pipeline

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, pytorch, scikit-learn

Research direction

Start with the Captum, AllenNLP Interpret, and NeuroX links and the Coding Challenge in task 1. Discuss which methods to select with the listed mentor before defining the HF-compatible aggregation API; done requires the chosen methods, an all-in-one interpret method, initial BigScience checkpoint analysis, and code that can support further methods.

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Description

duration: scalable, can be both 175 and 350 hours
mentor: @oserikov
difficulty: medium
requirements:

  1. pytorch
  2. sklearn
  3. python engineering code, with OOP and patterns
  4. experience with Transformer Language models

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Idea Description:

There exist lots of interpretability tools, both for Industry and Academia users.
While some of them are general-purpose, and the others are very field-specific, all of them have several things in common.
One would typically apply them to HuggingFace models. All of these methods try to explain the black-boxes we have.

What we propose is, shortly, to put together the existing popular models interpretation stack. We've made a survey of interpretability for LLMs and now have both scientific and engineering vision of what we should implement in order to maximize the interpretability of the existing LLMs.

You need to implement the HF-compatible interpretability aggregation API. The exact tasks to accomplish are:

  1. choose the most important methods provided by Captum, Interpret and NeuroX (which ones? to better understand the task, try to figure it out yourself. having done this, reach out to us ASAP and we will discuss your vision)
  2. implement the all-in-one interpret method to run all the chosen ones
  3. perform the initial analysis of the BigScience models checkpoints
  4. ensure the codebase is easy to cover the new methods
Coding Challenge

see task 1.

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