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Equation 18 · Part 1 · What Interpretability Actually Costs to Do at Scale

Symbol C_SAE

CSAE≈2dnTC_{\mathrm{SAE}} \approx 2dnT
CSAEC_{\mathrm{SAE}}

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Because published TopK configurations keep k in the tens to low hundreds while n runs into the millions, n ≫\gg k and the encoding term dominates almost entirely: CSAEC_{\mathrm{SAE}} ≈\approx 2dnT . That single approximation explains something the paper reports without deriving: convergence — the point at which more tokens stop buying lower reconstruction error — is reached later as n grows, empirically as Θ\Theta(n0.65n^{0.65}) tokens for GPT-4-scale autoencoders [ 1…

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