Equation 2 · Part 1 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
Symbol m_2
What this part means
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol m_2→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
…a smaller one — a reported example decomposes an “Einstein” feature into components resembling “scientist,” “Germany,” and “famous person.” Writing for one feature direction recovered by a dictionary of size and for the directions recovered by a smaller dictionary of size , their finding is that
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Sources cited in the article section
- [2] A is for Absorption: Studying Feature Splitting and Absorption in Sparse Autoencoders ↗
- [3] Sparse Autoencoders Do Not Find Canonical Units of Analysis ↗
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