Researchers Call SAE Work Limited, Urge Mechanistic Understanding
Interpretability researchers argue that much SAE work has contributed little to actually understanding models, favoring Transluce's meta-model approach and urging peers to focus on what methods reveal about model mechanisms rather than hillclimbing metrics.
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