LM Transparency Tool: Interactive Tool for Analyzing Transformer Language Models (2024.acl-demos)
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| Challenge: | Existing tools focus on isolated parts of the decision-making process, but LM-TT makes the entire prediction process transparent. |
| Approach: | They present an open-source toolkit for analyzing the internal workings of Transformer-based language models. |
| Outcome: | The LM Transparency Tool makes the entire prediction process transparent . it shows the importance of specific component at each step . |
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