Study Finds Interpretability Tools Fail to Predict Model Behavior Effectively
a_karvonen · x · 2026-08-22
The author posits that a good explanation of model behavior should enable predictions in related situations. They turned this into an eval with thousands of real-world behaviors. The results indicate that, on average, current interpretability tools do not help in making these predictions.
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