Resolution Frontier Search
Evidence-backed causal site search for local language models
MicroScope is an interpretability workbench that searches for candidate internal sites whose intervention behavior may explain a model output under a bounded probe. Resolution Frontier Search extends isolated activation inspection into an evidence ladder: baseline, ablation, restoration, and neighbor control. It ranks residual-stream and attention-head candidates with decomposed metrics, exports exact tensors and intervention artifacts, and refuses to promote a ranked site into a universal mechanistic claim without the required controls and benchmark families.
Current evidence state
IMPLEMENTED
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Publication
- Full paper:
/papers/p24-microscope-resolution-frontier - Claim ledger:
content/papers/p24-microscope-resolution-frontier/claim-ledger.json - Source manifest:
content/papers/p24-microscope-resolution-frontier/source-manifest.json - Diagrams: 3
- Approximate body length: 1,270 words
Demonstrations
d16-microscope-resolution-map
Benchmarks
b11-microscope-causal-ladders
Public boundary
The research entry publishes a public-safe architecture and evidence record. It does not grant implementation rights or expose restricted claim-ready material.