Deep Dream and SAE Feature Maximization in Modern LLMs
torchcompiled · x · 2026-07-20
A reply to @matthen2's discussion on the Deep Dream effect in modern large models. The original post demonstrated optimizing an image to maximize the probability of a target caption. It found that Gemma 12B, which lacks a vision encoder, reads pixels just like processing token embeddings, printing recognizable objects on the canvas. Conversely, E4B, which features a vision encoder, tends to lean towards texture drift.
The responder noted that maximizing optimization using individual features identified by Sparse Autoencoders (SAE) might yield even more interesting results.
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