DeepMind’s Gemma Scope is a tool that helps explain how AI models, especially LLMs, arrive at decisions, making them safer and more reliable.
Gemma Scope captures activations generated by Gemma 2 and other models, breaking them into smaller, easier-to-analyze pieces using sparse autoencoders.
Sparse autoencoders use two networks to transform activations, highlighting the most important parts of the AI model's activation signals.
One key feature of Gemma Scope is its JumpReLU activation function, which filters out less relevant signals in favour of focusing on critical details.
Gemma Scope filters out noise and pinpoints a model's most important signals in a model's layers. This makes it easier to track how the AI prioritizes and processes data.
Gemma Scope is built to work with various models, from small to large, and its resources can be accessed by researchers through platforms like Hugging Face.
It can be used to debug AI behaviour, address bias in AI, and improve AI safety.
Sparse autoencoders may overlook or misrepresent important data, which raises the need for reliable methods to measure performance and interpretability.
The tool is publicly available, but the computational resources required may restrict its use, limiting accessibility to the entire research community.
Despite its limitations, Gemma Scope is an essential resource for advancing AI transparency and reliability.