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Coverage Audits for LLM Interpretability Claims

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: A Mercury methods note arguing that sparse probing, activation patching, subspace intervention, and pruning claims should report a coverage audit before making broad localization claims. The audit uses 19 fullgrid manifests and shows a 1/7 pass rate for older sparse or coarse protocols versus 12/12 for per-channel quantile dense runs.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7165106975
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