Interpretability for Turing Machines

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๐Ÿ“ Abstract
We show that susceptibilities, an interpretability technique developed for neural networks, can identify the presence of algorithmic structure in Turing machines by probing the local loss landscape of a learning problem for noisy Turing machines introduced by Murfet and Troiani (arXiv:2504.08075). We prove that symmetries and path separation in the algorithm implemented by a Turing machine induce permutation symmetries and low-rank blocks in its susceptibility matrix. We study this empirically on a set of deterministic finite automata (DFAs) and demonstrate that algorithmic features can be recovered by principal component analysis and clustering methods in susceptibility space.
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Interpretability
Turing Machines
Algorithmic Structure
Susceptibilities
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susceptibilities
Turing machines
local loss landscape
permutation symmetries
low-rank blocks