arXiv Machine Learning By Sinie van der Ben, Neele Roch, Anna Hedstr\"om, Mennatallah El-Assady

Building Fast, Evaluating Slow: Pipeline Choices Dominate Autointerpretability Score Variance

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arXiv:2607. 19386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-paper comparison of sparse autoencoder (SAE) interpretability often relies on autointerpretability scores.

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