Competition of Mechanisms

This repo contains the official code for the Competition of Mechanisms: Tracing How Language Models Handle Facts and Counterfactuals paper. The datasets used are also available on HuggingFace

## Run the Experiments

LogitLens, Logit Attribution, Attention Pattern

Notebooks/experiments.ipynb

You can run the experiments running the notebooks/experiments.ipynb notebook. This notebook contains the code to run the experiments for the logit lens, logit attribution, and attention pattern.

Script/run_all.py

You can run the experiment running the following command:

cd Script
python run_all.py

with the following arguments:

• --model-name: the name of the model to run the experiments on. It can be gpt2 or EleuhterAI/pythia-6.9b.
• --batch N : the batch size to use for the experiments. ( Suggested 40 for gpt2, 10 for pythia)
• --experiment copyVSfact : the experiment to run.
• --logit-attribution : if you want to run the logit attribution experiment.
• --logit-len : if you want to run the logit lens (fig 2) experiment.
• --pattern: if you want to retrieve the attention pattern.

The script will create a folder in the Results/copyVSfact directory with the name of the model.

Example:

cd Script
python run_all.py --model-name gpt2 --batch 40 --experiment copyVSfact --logit-attribution 

Attention Modification

To run the attention modification experiments, you should look at the notebooks/attention_modification.ipynb notebook. This notebook contains the code to run the experiments for the attention modification.

Plot

You can plot using the src_figure/PaperPlot_multiple_subject.Rmd.