Evaluating Brain-Inspired Modular Training in Automated Circuit Discovery for Mechanistic Interpretability

Large Language Models (LLMs) have experienced a rapid rise in AI, changing a wide range of applications with their advanced capabilities. As these models become increasingly integral to decision-making, the need for thorough interpretability has never been more critical. Mechanistic Interpretability offers a pathway to this understanding by identifying and analyzing specific sub-networks or 'circuits' within these complex systems. A crucial aspect of this approach is Automated Circuit Discovery, which facilitates the study of large models like GPT4 or LLAMA in a feasible manner. In this context, our research evaluates a recent method, Brain-Inspired Modular Training (BIMT), designed to enhance the interpretability of neural networks. We demonstrate how BIMT significantly improves the efficiency and quality of Automated Circuit Discovery, overcoming the limitations of manual methods. Our comparative analysis further reveals that BIMT outperforms existing models in terms of circuit quality, discovery time, and sparsity. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive computational analysis of BIMT, including aspects such as training duration, memory allocation requirements, and inference speed. This study advances the larger objective of creating trustworthy and transparent AI systems in addition to demonstrating how well BIMT works to make neural networks easier to understand.

ZeroSearch: Local Image Search from Text with Zero Shot Learning

The problem of organizing and finding images in a user's directory has become increasingly challenging due to the rapid growth in the number of images captured on personal devices. This paper presents a solution that utilizes zero shot learning to create image queries with only user provided text descriptions. The paper's primary contribution is the development of an algorithm that utilizes pre-trained models to extract features from images. The algorithm uses OWL to check for the presence of bounding boxes and sorts images based on cosine similarity scores. The algorithm's output is a list of images sorted in descending order of similarity, helping users to locate specific images more efficiently. The paper's experiments were conducted using a custom dataset to simulate a user's image directory and evaluated the accuracy, inference time, and size of the models. The results showed that the VGG model achieved the highest accuracy, while the Resnet50 and InceptionV3 models had the lowest inference time and size. The papers proposed algorithm provides an effective and efficient solution for organizing and finding images in a users local directory. The algorithm's performance and flexibility make it suitable for various applications, including personal image organization and search engines. Code and dataset for zero-search are available at: https://github.com/NainaniJatinZ/zero-search

Feature-Rich Long-term Bitcoin Trading Assistant

For a long time predicting, studying and analyzing financial indices has been of major interest for the financial community. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the Deep-Learning community to make use of reinforcement learning which has surpassed many of the previous benchmarks in a lot of fields. Our method provides a feature rich environment for the reinforcement learning agent to work on. The aim is to provide long term profits to the user so, we took into consideration the most reliable technical indicators. We have also developed a custom indicator which would provide better insights of the Bitcoin market to the user. The Bitcoin market follows the emotions and sentiments of the traders, so another element of our trading environment is the overall daily Sentiment Score of the market on Twitter. The agent is tested for a period of 685 days which also included the volatile period of Covid-19. It has been capable of providing reliable recommendations which give an average profit of about 69%. Finally, the agent is also capable of suggesting the optimal actions to the user through a website. Users on the website can also access the visualizations of the indicators to help fortify their decisions.