--- title: "Can Rager — author profile and papers · Interpretability" description: "Can Rager: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Can Rager # Can Rager Can Rager has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Aaquib Syed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/), [Aaron Mueller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-mueller/), [Arnab Sen Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-sen-sharma/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5063383301) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5063383301) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063383301) · [34 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063383301&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 74 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8163](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8163) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Can+Rager) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Can+Rager) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Can+Rager) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Can+Rager) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Attribution Patching Outperforms Automated Circuit Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/syed-2023-attribution-patching-outperforms-automated-circuit/)** *(2023 · 81 citations)* Mechanistic interpretability tries to find circuits, which are small subgraphs of a network that account for a specific behavior. Automated tools such as ACDC rely on activation patching. That method needs an extra forward pass for each edge it tests, so it scales poorly to large models. 2. **[The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mueller-2026-quest-right-mediator-surveying-mechanistic/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* Research on mechanistic interpretability (MI) of language models is fragmented. Studies use bespoke evaluations, lack a shared theoretical basis, and rarely define the elementary causal units that make up a "mechanism." This survey, published in Computational Linguistics, treats MI as recovering causal graphs that… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aaquib Syed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/) - [Aaron Mueller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-mueller/) - [Arnab Sen Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-sen-sharma/) - [Arthur Conmy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arthur-conmy/) - [David Bau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/) - [Eric Todd](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/) - [Jiuding Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiuding-sun/) - [Koyena Pal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/koyena-pal/) - [Millicent Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/millicent-li/) - [Samuel Marks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-marks/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 74 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026