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Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Interpretability in Parameter Space: Minimizing Mechanistic Description Length with Attribution-based Parameter Decomposition cites this paper.

Interpretability in Parameter Space: Minimizing Mechanistic Description Length with Attribution-based Parameter Decomposition Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Sparse Autoencoders Trained on the Same Data Learn Different Features cites this paper.

Sparse Autoencoders Trained on the Same Data Learn Different Features Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Transcoders Beat Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability cites this paper.

Transcoders Beat Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Evaluating Explanations: An Explanatory Virtues Framework for Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.ii cites this paper.

Evaluating Explanations: An Explanatory Virtues Framework for Mechanistic Interpretability -- The Strange Science Part I.ii Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Train One Sparse Autoencoder Across Multiple Sparsity Budgets to Preserve Interpretability and Accuracy cites this paper.

Train One Sparse Autoencoder Across Multiple Sparsity Budgets to Preserve Interpretability and Accuracy Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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FaithfulSAE: Towards Capturing Faithful Features with Sparse Autoencoders without External Dataset Dependencies cites this paper.

FaithfulSAE: Towards Capturing Faithful Features with Sparse Autoencoders without External Dataset Dependencies Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Evaluating SAE interpretability without explanations cites this paper.

Evaluating SAE interpretability without explanations Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Stable and Steerable Sparse Autoencoders with Weight Regularization cites this paper.

Stable and Steerable Sparse Autoencoders with Weight Regularization Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Tree SAE: Learning Hierarchical Feature Structures in Sparse Autoencoders cites this paper.

Tree SAE: Learning Hierarchical Feature Structures in Sparse Autoencoders Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Tree SAE: Learning Hierarchical Feature Structures in Sparse Autoencoders cites this paper.

Tree SAE: Learning Hierarchical Feature Structures in Sparse Autoencoders Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability cites this paper.

From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability cites this paper.

From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability cites this paper.

From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Descriptive Collision in Sparse Autoencoder Auto-Interpretability: When One Explanation Describes Many Features cites this paper.

Descriptive Collision in Sparse Autoencoder Auto-Interpretability: When One Explanation Describes Many Features Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs cites this paper.

The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Structuring Sparsity: Block-Sparse Featurizers Capture Visual Concept Manifolds cites this paper.

Structuring Sparsity: Block-Sparse Featurizers Capture Visual Concept Manifolds Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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Decoder-Preserving Sparse Autoencoders: Which Readouts Survive Sparse Compression? cites this paper.

Decoder-Preserving Sparse Autoencoders: Which Readouts Survive Sparse Compression? Interpretability as Compression: Reconsidering SAE Explanations of Neural Activations with MDL-SAEs

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