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October 20, 2025Open Access

TRACE: Training and Inference-Time Interpretability Analysis for Language Models

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NANura AljaafariDCDanilo CarvalhoAFAndré Freitas

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Overview

Modular toolkit enhances interpretability of transformer models during training, suggesting insights into linguistic feature acquisition.

Key Points

  • TRACE reveals early syntactic emergence and delayed semantic acquisition in language models, enhancing interpretability.
  • The toolkit enables analysis of linguistic signals using features probing and Hessian curvature, making it efficient.
  • Using TRACE with autoregressive transformers shows it captures developmental phenomena missed by traditional metrics.
  • The tool promotes actionable insights and reproducibility with layer-wise diagnostics and convergence-based early stopping.

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Aljaafari et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f5fcdc8d54a28a75cf25d4https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.03668
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