Equation 5 · Part 6 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
Symbol g
What this part means
g is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
g is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
…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 . with g itself sparse. A direction that a large dictionary presents as one unit is recoverable as a sparse combination of a smaller dictionary’s units, which means the large dictionary’s “atoms” are not atomic. Put the incompleteness and the non-atomicity results together and no dictionary size is…
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