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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation

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This paper cites Harald Baayen, Douglas J.

Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Harald Baayen, Douglas J

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation An Interpretability Illusion for BERT

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Accounting for Variance in Machine Learning Benchmarks

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Identifying Functionally Important Features with End-to-End Sparse Dictionary Learning

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Towards monosemanticity: Decomposing language models with dictionary learning

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation BatchTopK Sparse Autoencoders

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Improving Steering Vectors by Targeting Sparse Autoencoder Features

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Are Sparse Autoencoder Benchmarks Reliable?

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation A is for absorption: Studying feature splitting and absorption in sparse autoencoders

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This paper cites Evaluating Open-Source Sparse Autoencoders on Disentangling Factual Knowledge in GPT-2 Small.

Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Evaluating Open-Source Sparse Autoencoders on Disentangling Factual Knowledge in GPT-2 Small

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This paper cites Are Single-Token Sparse Autoencoder Features Causally Necessary? Layer-Depth and SAE-Family Effects.

Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Are Single-Token Sparse Autoencoder Features Causally Necessary? Layer-Depth and SAE-Family Effects

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Towards Automated Circuit Discovery for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Cronbach, Goldine C

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Show Your Work: Improved Reporting of Experimental Results

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Transcoders Find Interpretable LLM Feature Circuits

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Toy Models of Superposition

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Not All Language Model Features Are One-Dimensionally Linear

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Applying sparse autoencoders to unlearn knowledge in language models

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Automated interpretability metrics do not distinguish trained and random transformers

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation RAVEL: Evaluating Interpretability Methods on Disentangling Language Model Representations

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Judd, Jacob Westfall, and David A

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Are Sparse Autoencoders Useful? A Case Study in Sparse Probing

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Measuring Progress in Dictionary Learning for Language Model Interpretability with Board Game Models

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders in Language Model Interpretability

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Interpreting Attention Layer Outputs with Sparse Autoencoders

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Sanity checks for sparse autoencoders: Do SAEs beat random baselines? 2026

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Sparse Autoencoders Do Not Find Canonical Units of Analysis

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Gemma Scope: Open Sparse Autoencoders Everywhere All At Once on Gemma 2

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Towards Principled Evaluations of Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability and Control

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Sparse Autoencoders Trained on the Same Data Learn Different Features

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Improving Dictionary Learning with Gated Sparse Autoencoders

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Jumping Ahead: Improving Reconstruction Fidelity with JumpReLU Sparse Autoencoders

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Shavelson and Noreen M

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Attribution Patching Outperforms Automated Circuit Discovery

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Daniel Freeman, Theodore R

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Interpretability in the Wild: a Circuit for Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small

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Where You Measure Decides What You Measure: Position Selection in Ablation-Based SAE Evaluation Towards Best Practices of Activation Patching in Language Models: Metrics and Methods

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