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Equation 27 · Part 1 · What Interpretability Actually Costs to Do at Scale

Symbol n

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nn

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n 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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…ledger has a plausible, if unproven, path downward. CSAEC_{\mathrm{SAE}} ≈\approx 2dnT is a cost that infrastructure and algorithmic improvements — sparser encoders, better initialization that reaches convergence at lower n , transcoders that replace rather than merely observe a component — can attack directly, the same way serving-side engineering rather than raw parameter growth has driven most within-generation price reduction for inference elsewhere in this field. TopK autoencoders were themselves exactly this…

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