Circuits Are Estimates, Not Mechanisms: A Recovered Subgraph Is One Draw From a Class Set by the Ablation, the Dataset and the Grain, the Results That Defend Circuits Hold at the Level of That Class, and What Ablation Evidence Licenses at Each Level

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). Circuits Are Estimates, Not Mechanisms: A Recovered Subgraph Is One Draw From a Class Set by the Ablation, the Dataset and the Grain, the Results That Defend Circuits Hold at the Level of That Class, and What Ablation Evidence Licenses at Each Level [Journal article]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23289446

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@misc{lor982026,
  title        = {Circuits Are Estimates, Not Mechanisms: A Recovered Subgraph Is One Draw From a Class Set by the Ablation, the Dataset and the Grain, the Results That Defend Circuits Hold at the Level of That Class, and What Ablation Evidence Licenses at Each Level},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23289446},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/articles/98},
  keywords     = {mechanistic interpretability, circuit discovery, activation patching, ablation, identifiability, causal abstraction, faithfulness, evaluation validity},
  note         = {LOR-00098}
}

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