Equation 13 · Part 1 · Probing, Sparse Autoencoders, Patching, and Steering: The Main Interpretability Methods, Compared
Symbol f
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f is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…JumpReLU, a thresholded activation function with a learned per-feature cutoff trained through a straight-through gradient estimator, which lets the objective penalise the true count of active features, f(x) , directly rather than through the proxy, and reported state-of-the-art reconstruction fidelity at matched sparsity against both the earlier formulation and a competing gated variant [ 7 ] . That the field kept revising the sparsity penalty is itself evidence of how much…
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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.
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