Causal World Representation in the GPT Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07446v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:05:03 GMT
• Title: Causal World Representation in the GPT Model
• Authors: Raanan Y. Rohekar, Yaniv Gurwicz, Sungduk Yu, Vasudev Lal,
• Abstract summary: generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models are tested on real-world games played with the intention of winning. We find that GPT models tend to generate next moves that adhere to the game rules for sequences for which the attention mechanism encodes a causal structure with high confidence. In general, in cases for which the GPT model generates moves that do not adhere to the game rules, it also fails to capture any causal structure.
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• Abstract: Are generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models only trained to predict the next token, or do they implicitly learn a world model from which a sequence is generated one token at a time? We examine this question by deriving a causal interpretation of the attention mechanism in GPT, and suggesting a causal world model that arises from this interpretation. Furthermore, we propose that GPT-models, at inference time, can be utilized for zero-shot causal structure learning for in-distribution sequences. Empirical evaluation is conducted in a controlled synthetic environment using the setup and rules of the Othello board game. A GPT, pre-trained on real-world games played with the intention of winning, is tested on synthetic data that only adheres to the game rules. We find that the GPT model tends to generate next moves that adhere to the game rules for sequences for which the attention mechanism encodes a causal structure with high confidence. In general, in cases for which the GPT model generates moves that do not adhere to the game rules, it also fails to capture any causal structure.

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