A gentle introduction to sparse autoencoders

Our biggest leap so far in deciphering how large language models work

A gentle introduction to sparse autoencoders Our biggest leap so far in deciphering how large language models work Nick Jiang Jul 03, 2024 6 Share DALLE3: a lab technician wielding a sledgehammer to break open a black box Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are the current hot topic 🔥 in the interpretability world. In late May, Anthropic released a paper that shows how to use sparse autoencoders to effectively break down the internal reasoning of Claude 3 (Anthropic’s LLM) 1 . Shortly after, OpenAI published a paper successfully applying a similar procedure for GPT4. What’s exciting about SAEs is that

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