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CircuitKIT : Circuit Discovery, Evaluation, and Application Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability

Research Mechanistic Interpretability

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TL;DR - CircuitKIT is a source-available toolkit that unifies circuit discovery, evaluation, and model intervention. Its shared infrastructure aims to make circuit-analysis methods easier to compare and apply beyond standard tasks.

  • Uses a typed, serializable representation across the circuit-analysis workflow.
  • Includes multiple discovery algorithms and declarative tools for generating discovery tasks from structured data.
  • Provides circuit diagnostics and modules for pruning, editing, steering, and selective fine-tuning.
  • Releases the library alongside examples, notebooks, and documentation.

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CircuitKIT : Circuit Discovery, Evaluation, and Application Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability

arXiv cs.LG Pratinav Seth, Hem Gosalia, Aditya Kasliwal, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu 2026-07-21 arXiv:2607.19317

TL;DR - CircuitKIT is a source-available toolkit that unifies circuit discovery, evaluation, and model intervention. Its shared infrastructure aims to make circuit-analysis methods easier to compare and apply beyond standard tasks.

  • Uses a typed, serializable representation across the circuit-analysis workflow.
  • Includes multiple discovery algorithms and declarative tools for generating discovery tasks from structured data.
  • Provides circuit diagnostics and modules for pruning, editing, steering, and selective fine-tuning.
  • Releases the library alongside examples, notebooks, and documentation.
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