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pith:2024:NKIOL3VWQLF5GJERKQPTB6XR55

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Towards Principled Evaluations of Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability and Control

Aleksandar Makelov, George Lange, Neel Nanda

arxiv:2405.08366 v3 · 2024-05-14 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:20:54.645739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

6a90e5eeb682cbd32491541f30faf1ef477d3d3005c31d1aed28163097b64b3f

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arxiv: 2405.08366 · arxiv_version: 2405.08366v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.08366 · pith_short_12: NKIOL3VWQLF5 · pith_short_16: NKIOL3VWQLF5GJER · pith_short_8: NKIOL3VW

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NKIOL3VWQLF5GJERKQPTB6XR55 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6a90e5eeb682cbd32491541f30faf1ef477d3d3005c31d1aed28163097b64b3f

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