arXiv Machine Learning By Valentin No\"el

Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation

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arXiv:2608. 13337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoders are meant to name the things a language model computes, and the usual way to check that a latent matters is to switch it off and see what changes.

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