2026
A Distributional View for Visual Mechanistic Interpretability: KL-Minimal Soft-Constraint Principle
ICML 2026spotlight
Most current paradigms in visual mechanistic interpretability (MI) remain confined to interpreting internal units of the vision model via heuristic methods (e.g., top-$K$ activation retrieval or optimization with regularization). In this work, we establish a theoretical distributional view for visua…