"""Causal control for the induction atlas: ablate the top-k induction heads vs k RANDOM heads and measure the damage to in-context (2nd-copy) loss. An induction score is correlational; this is what makes it a mechanism.""" import json, os, shutil, sys import torch from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer MODEL = "EleutherAI/pythia-160m" REVS = sys.argv[1:] or ["step512", "step1000", "step2000", "step16000", "step143000"] K = 5 dev = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu" tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL) g = torch.Generator().manual_seed(0) half = torch.randint(0, tok.vocab_size, (16, 64), generator=g) ids = torch.cat([half, half], 1).to(dev) L = 64 def install(model, heads): """Zero each (layer,head)'s slice of the attention output before the dense projection.""" cfg = model.config dh = cfg.hidden_size // cfg.num_attention_heads by = {} for (l, h) in heads: by.setdefault(l, []).append(h) hs = [] for l, hd in by.items(): dense = model.gpt_neox.layers[l].attention.dense def pre(mod, args, hd=hd): x = args[0].clone() for h in hd: x[..., h * dh:(h + 1) * dh] = 0 return (x,) + tuple(args[1:]) hs.append(dense.register_forward_pre_hook(pre)) return hs @torch.no_grad() def second_copy_loss(model): lg = model(ids).logits[:, :-1].float() lp = torch.log_softmax(lg, -1).gather(2, ids[:, 1:].unsqueeze(2)).squeeze(2) return float(-lp[:, L:].mean()) scores = {r["revision"]: r for r in (json.loads(l) for l in open("data/induction_pythia-160m.jsonl"))} out = [] for rev in REVS: m = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(MODEL, revision=rev, attn_implementation="eager", dtype=torch.float32).to(dev).eval() base = second_copy_loss(m) hs = sorted(scores[rev]["heads"], key=lambda h: -h["induction_mean"])[:K] top = [(h["layer"], h["head"]) for h in hs] gg = torch.Generator().manual_seed(1) NL, NH = scores[rev]["n_layers"], scores[rev]["n_heads"] rnd = [(int(torch.randint(0, NL, (1,), generator=gg)), int(torch.randint(0, NH, (1,), generator=gg))) for _ in range(K)] hk = install(m, top); abl_i = second_copy_loss(m); [h.remove() for h in hk] hk = install(m, rnd); abl_r = second_copy_loss(m); [h.remove() for h in hk] rec = {"revision": rev, "step": scores[rev]["step"], "baseline_2nd_copy_loss": base, "ablate_induction": abl_i, "ablate_random": abl_r, "delta_induction": abl_i - base, "delta_random": abl_r - base, "top_heads": top, "random_heads": rnd} out.append(rec) print(f"{rev:>12} base {base:6.3f} | ablate induction {abl_i:6.3f} ({abl_i-base:+.3f}) " f"| random {abl_r:6.3f} ({abl_r-base:+.3f})", flush=True) del m if dev == "cuda": torch.cuda.empty_cache() shutil.rmtree(os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--EleutherAI--pythia-160m"), ignore_errors=True) with open("data/ablation_pythia-160m.jsonl", "w") as f: for r in out: f.write(json.dumps(r) + "\n") print("written")