Eric Todd

PhD Student

Eric Todd
  • BS in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Brigham Young University 

Eric Todd is a doctoral student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is advised by David Bau. 

Todd joined Khoury College in 2022 with a research focus on interpretable machine learning — understanding the mechanisms that large language and vision models use to solve tasks to enable better control of those systems to fit user needs.

  • NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Open-Weight Foundation Model Internals

    Citation: Jaden Fried Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander Russell Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Koyena Pal, Dmitrii Troitskii, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Can Rager, Caden Juang, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Nikhil Prakash, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell , Byron C. Wallace, David Bau. (2025). NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Open-Weight Foundation Model Internals ICLR. https://openreview.net/forum?id=MxbEiFRf39

  • Function Vectors in Large Language Models

    Citation: Eric Todd, Millicent L. Li, Arnab Sen Sharma, Aaron Mueller, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau. (2024). Function Vectors in Large Language Models ICLR. https://openreview.net/forum?id=AwyxtyMwaG