Summary of Towards Principled Evaluations Of Sparse Autoencoders For Interpretability and Control, by Aleksandar Makelov et al.
Towards Principled Evaluations of Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretability and Control
by Aleksandar Makelov, George Lange, Neel Nanda
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a framework for evaluating feature dictionaries in the context of specific tasks, aiming to disentangle model activations into meaningful features. By comparing unsupervised dictionaries against supervised ones, the authors demonstrate that the latter achieve excellent approximation, control, and interpretability of model computations on a given task. This approach enables the evaluation of recent techniques like sparse dictionary learning in realistic scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand how AI models work by developing a new way to test what these models are doing. They compare two types of dictionaries: ones that are made after looking at lots of labeled data, and ones that are made without any labels. The authors show that the labeled dictionaries do a much better job of explaining how the model works on a specific task. This makes it easier to figure out if new methods for making dictionaries are actually working well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Supervised » Unsupervised
