{"id":14882,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/using-topology-to-characterize-and-interpret-large-ai-models\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"using-topology-to-characterize-and-interpret-large-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/using-topology-to-characterize-and-interpret-large-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Topology to Characterize and Interpret Large AI Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">MIT Lincoln Laboratory<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science\/Physics, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Dr. Adaku Uchendu, Dr. Alexia Schulz<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Leif Zinn-Brooks<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Catherine Liu (TL-S), Kimberly Lopez (TL-F), Shreya Subramanian, Adam Tang, Angelina Tsai<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">MIT Lincoln Laboratory focuses on researching and developing technologies to support national security. Given the ubiquity of AI, the team explored making AI systems trustworthy and reliable through topological data analysis (TDA). TDA uses topological and geometric properties to characterize both global and local structures within high-dimensional data. Therefore, two problems were attempted: (1) interpreting topological features extracted from text linguistically; and (2) observing the topological effects of adversarial perturbations in language models using attention maps.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Lincoln Laboratory Computer Science\/Physics, 2025\u201326 Liaison(s): Dr. Adaku Uchendu, Dr. Alexia Schulz Advisor(s): Leif Zinn-Brooks Students(s): Catherine Liu (TL-S), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,161],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-14882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-physics","tag-mit-lincoln-laboratory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}