"""Live tutorial: run after installing vlmprobe[transformers,visualization].""" # 1. Install and load a native model import os from pathlib import Path import torch import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from transformers import AutoTokenizer, GPT2LMHeadModel from vlmprobe import Prober, TokenMargin from vlmprobe.visualization import plot_causal_heatmap, plot_intervention_curves # First run downloads GPT-2 (~0.5 GB). Use an existing local checkpoint if desired. model_id = os.environ.get("VLM_PROBING_MODEL", "openai-community/gpt2") device = os.environ.get("VLM_PROBING_DEVICE", "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu") model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained(model_id, attn_implementation="eager").to(device).eval() tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id) probe = Prober(model, processor=tokenizer) print({name: info for name, info in probe.describe()["methods"].items() if name.startswith("causal.")}) output_dir = Path(os.environ.get("VLM_PROBING_OUTPUT", "outputs/tutorials/causal")) output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) # 2. Construct raw prompts, aligned inputs, and a one-token answer metric # An explicit author-published IOI pair (row 826); no result snapshots are used. # Source: hannamw/eap-ig-faithfulness, data/ioi/gpt2.csv; see docs/REFERENCES.md. clean_prompt = "When Amy and Laura got a snack at the house, Laura decided to give it to" reference_prompt = "When Amy and Laura got a snack at the house, Nicholas decided to give it to" def prepare_text(text): # The authors prepend GPT-2's BOS token. Keep the convention explicit. ids = [tokenizer.bos_token_id, *tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False)] input_ids = torch.tensor([ids], device=device) return {"input_ids": input_ids, "attention_mask": torch.ones_like(input_ids)} inputs = prepare_text(clean_prompt) reference = prepare_text(reference_prompt) assert inputs["input_ids"].shape == reference["input_ids"].shape, "Pair token lengths must match" positive_ids = tokenizer.encode(" Amy", add_special_tokens=False) negative_ids = tokenizer.encode(" Laura", add_special_tokens=False) assert len(positive_ids) == len(negative_ids) == 1, "TokenMargin requires one-token candidates" metric = TokenMargin(positive=positive_ids[0], negative=negative_ids[0]) print("Clean:", clean_prompt) print("Reference:", reference_prompt) print("Candidates:", tokenizer.decode(positive_ids), tokenizer.decode(negative_ids)) # Check the role alignment, not just the equal length. for position, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(inputs["input_ids"][0], reference["input_ids"][0])): print(position, repr(tokenizer.decode([a.item()])), repr(tokenizer.decode([b.item()]))) # 3. Execute independent sender-to-receiver paths # A short scan: all heads in the first, middle, and last decoder layer. # Other layers are genuinely unmeasured and remain gray in the plot. available = sorted(probe.spec.path_heads) selected_layers = sorted({available[0], available[len(available) // 2], available[-1]}) senders = [(layer, head) for layer in selected_layers for head in range(probe.spec.path_heads[layer].heads)] method = probe.causal.path( senders=senders, receivers="residual", sender_tokens="last_prompt", donor_tokens="last_prompt", receiver_tokens="last_prompt", ) result = method.sweep(inputs, donor=reference, metric=metric, alignment="position") print("Baseline margin:", result.tensors["baseline_score"]) print("Reference margin:", result.tensors["donor_score"]) print("Measured effects [sender,batch]:", result.tensors["effect"].shape) print("Actual forward passes:", result.metadata["actual_forward_passes"]) result.save(output_dir / "path_patching") # A no-change control executes the same four-stage intervention with identical inputs. identity = probe.causal.path(senders=[senders[0]], receivers="residual").run( inputs, donor=inputs, metric=metric, ) print("Identity-donor effect (should be near zero):", identity.tensors["effect"]) # 4. Plot actual coordinates and inspect the sign ax = plot_causal_heatmap( result, layer_labels=available, column_labels=list(range(model.config.n_head)), title="Independent head-to-final-residual path interventions", value_label="Measured Amy-minus-Laura margin change", highlight_count=3, ) ax.figure.set_size_inches(8, 5) ax.figure.savefig(output_dir / "causal-path-patching.png", dpi=150, bbox_inches="tight") plt.show() # 5. Optional: change the receiver, keeping the public input contract # Optional receiver-specific experiment: one early sender to a later physical V head. # This runs four fresh forwards; it is not an attribution graph or a new training step. receiver_result = probe.causal.path( senders=[(available[0], 0)], receivers=[(available[-1], 0, "v")], sender_tokens="last_prompt", receiver_tokens="last_prompt", ).run(inputs, donor=reference, metric=metric, alignment="position") print("Sender -> receiver V-head effect:", receiver_result.tensors["effect"])