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pith:2024:QARUC5BNG6SNTNH2GJY2MISDLH

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

Kola Ayonrinde, Lee Sharkey, Michael T. Pearce

arxiv:2410.11179 v1 · 2024-10-15 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:20:30.393734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

802341742d37a4d9b4fa3271a6224359f5c2b66b7eda1807c33c7a39cb25d88d

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arxiv: 2410.11179 · arxiv_version: 2410.11179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.11179 · pith_short_12: QARUC5BNG6SN · pith_short_16: QARUC5BNG6SNTNH2 · pith_short_8: QARUC5BN

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QARUC5BNG6SNTNH2GJY2MISDLH \
  | 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: 802341742d37a4d9b4fa3271a6224359f5c2b66b7eda1807c33c7a39cb25d88d

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      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-15T01:38:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc3f1bc4f0fce8a09e99b6e5ef78db33f3c1f39f45bd1ae972fbd21c4094dd23"
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