{
  "id": "2310.14491",
  "title": "Towards a Mechanistic Interpretation of Multi-Step Reasoning Capabilities of Language Models",
  "authors": "Yifan Hou, Jiaoda Li, Yu Fei, Alessandro Stolfo, Wangchunshu Zhou, Guangtao Zeng, Antoine Bosselut, Mrinmaya Sachan",
  "first_public": "2023-10-23",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2310.14491",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14491",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
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  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Uses mechanistic analysis to identify internal components involved in multi-step reasoning and test their causal roles.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Yifan Hou",
    "Jiaoda Li",
    "Yu Fei",
    "Alessandro Stolfo",
    "Wangchunshu Zhou",
    "Guangtao Zeng",
    "Antoine Bosselut",
    "Mrinmaya Sachan"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2023-10-23",
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